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Pandoc

How to use Pandoc to produce a research paper

create paper.pdf from paper.md and paper.bib

pandoc --pdf-engine latexmk -C --bibliography=paper.bib \
-M reference-section-title=Bibliography \
-V classoption=twocolumn -V papersize=a4paper -V fontsize=12pt \
-V geometry:margin=0.1in -V mainfont=Times \
-s paper.md -o paper.pdf

deal with CJK

pandoc --pdf-engine xelatex -C --bibliography=paper.bib \
-M reference-section-title=Bibliography \
-V classoption=twocolumn -V papersize=a4paper -V fontsize=12pt \
-V geometry:margin=0.1in -V mainfont=Times -V CJKmainfont='Songti SC' \
-s paper.md -o paper.pdf

using HTML as intermedia and wkhtmltopdf to create PDF

pandoc -s paper.md -o paper.pdf -t html5 \
-V margin-top=0 -V margin-bottom=0 -V margin-left=0 -V margin-right=0

word count

pandoc --lua-filter ~/.config/helper.lua/wc.lua input

convert docx to md:

cat INPUT_FILENAME.docx | pandoc --from docx --to markdown_strict \
    --extract-media=. -o OUTPUT_FILENAME.md &&
    sed -i -e 's/\\\_/_/g' \
        -e 's/\\\\\[/[/g' \
        -e 's/\\\\\]/]/g' \
        -e 's/\\\\\*/*/g' \
        -e 's/\\\\left\\\\\\\\ /\\\\left\\\\{/g' \
        -e 's/>/>/g' \
        -e 's/&lt;/</g' \
        OUTPUT_FILENAME.md