I can't seem to figure out if this is possible. Still trying to learn the tool - I've figured out how to run it on an input file and generate outputs, but would it be possible for it to, for example, take a text as an input and generate an output file.
For e.g., instead of
pandoc -i somefile.md -o -f markdown -t docx output.md
could I do
pandoc "# hello there! \n\nI went to the market" -o -f markdown -t docx output.md
Am I missing some option in the doc?
You can pass text input to pandoc. I did so by using the pipe operator:
echo "# hello there! \n\nI went to the market" | pandoc -f markdown -t docx -o foo.docx
This works with other text markups:
echo "* hello there! \n\nI went to the market" | pandoc -f org -t docx -o foo.docx
If you are targeting another text-based markup, you can even get it to print out text:
echo "# hello there! \n\nI went to the market" | pandoc -f markdown -t org
* hello there!
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: hello-there
:END:
I went to the market