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pandoc-server(1)	       Pandoc User's Guide		pandoc-server(1)

SYNOPSIS
     pandoc-server [options]

DESCRIPTION
     pandoc-server  is a web server that can perform pandoc conversions.  It can
     be used either as a running server or as a CGI program.

     To use pandoc-server as a CGI program, rename it (or symlink  it)	as  pan-
     doc-server.cgi.  (Note: if you symlink it, you may need to adjust your web-
     server's  configuration in order to allow it to follow symlinks for the CGI
     script.)

     All pandoc functions are run in the PandocPure monad,  which  ensures  that
     they  can	do  no I/O operations on the server.  This should provide a high
     degree of security.  This security does, however,	impose	certain  limita-
     tions:

     * PDFs cannot be produced.

     * Filters are not supported.

     * Resources cannot be fetched via HTTP.

     * Any  images,  include  files,  or other resources needed for the document
       conversion must be explicitly included in  the  request,  via  the  files
       field (see below under API).

OPTIONS
     --port NUM
	    HTTP port on which to run the server.  Default: 3030.

     --timeout SECONDS
	    Timeout in seconds, after which a conversion is killed.  Default: 2.
	    When  pandoc-server  is run as a CGI program, this option can be set
	    via the PANDOC_SERVER_TIMEOUT environment variable.

     --help
	    Print this help.

     --version
	    Print version.

API
   Root endpoint
     The root (/) endpoint accepts only POST requests.

   Response
     It returns a converted document in one of the following formats  (in  order
     of preference), depending on the Accept header:

     * application/octet-stream

     * text/plain

     * application/json

     If  the  result  is a binary format (e.g., epub or docx) and the content is
     returned as plain text or JSON, the binary will be base64 encoded.

     If a JSON response is given, it will have one of the following formats.  If
     the conversion is not successful:

	    { "error": string with the error message }

     If the conversion is successful:

	    { "output": string with textual or base64-encoded binary output,
	      "base64": boolean (true means the "output" is base64-encoded),
	      "messages": array of message objects (see below) }

     Each element of the "messages" array will have the format

	    { "message": string,
	      "verbosity": string (either "WARNING" or "INFO") }

   Request
     The body of the POST request should be a JSON object,  with  the  following
     fields.   Only the text field is required; all of the others can be omitted
     for default values.  When there are several string alternatives, the  first
     one given is the default.

     text (string)
	    The  document  to  be converted.  Note: if the from format is binary
	    (e.g., epub or docx), then text should be a base64 encoding  of  the
	    document.

     from (string, default "markdown")
	    The  input format, possibly with extensions, just as it is specified
	    on the pandoc command line.

     to (string, default "html")
	    The output format, possibly with extensions, just as it is specified
	    on the pandoc command line.

     shift-heading-level-by (integer, default 0)
	    Increase or decrease the level of all headings.

     indented-code-classes (array of strings)
	    List of classes to be applied to indented Markdown code blocks.

     default-image-extension (string)
	    Extension to be  applied  to  image  sources  that	lack  extensions
	    (e.g. ".jpg").

     metadata (JSON map)
	    String-valued metadata.

     tab-stop (integer, default 4)
	    Tab stop (spaces per tab).

     track-changes ("accept"|"reject"|"all")
	    Specifies  what  to do with insertions, deletions, and comments pro-
	    duced by the MS Word "Track Changes" feature.  Only affects docx in-
	    put.

     abbreviations (file path)
	    List of strings to be regarded as abbreviations when  parsing  Mark-
	    down.  See --abbreviations in pandoc(1) for details.

     standalone (boolean, default false)
	    If	true, causes a standalone document to be produced, using the de-
	    fault template or the custom template specified using template.   If
	    false, a fragment will be produced.

     template (string)
	    String  contents  of a document template (see Templates in pandoc(1)
	    for the format).

     variables (JSON map)
	    Variables to be interpolated in the  template.   (See  Templates  in
	    pandoc(1).)

     dpi (integer, default 96)
	    Dots-per-inch  to  use for conversions between pixels and other mea-
	    surements (for image sizes).

     wrap ("auto"|"preserve"|"none")
	    Text wrapping option: either "auto" (automatic hard-wrapping to  fit
	    within  a  column width), "preserve" (insert newlines where they are
	    present in the source), or "none" (don't insert any unnecessary new-
	    lines at all).

     columns (integer, default 72)
	    Column width (affects text wrapping and calculation of table  column
	    widths in plain text formats)

     table-of-contents (boolean, default false)
	    Include a table of contents (in supported formats).

     toc-depth (integer, default 3)
	    Depth of sections to include in the table of contents.

     list-of-figures (boolean, default false)
	    Include a list of figures (in supported formats).

     list-of-tables (boolean, default false)
	    Include a list of tables (in supported formats).

     strip-comments (boolean, default false)
	    Causes  HTML  comments to be stripped in Markdown or Textile source,
	    instead of being passed through to the output format.

     syntax-highlighting ("default"|"none"|"idiomatic"|style)
	    The method used for code syntax highlighting.   Setting  a	specific
	    style  causes  highlighting  to be performed with the internal high-
	    lighting engine, using KDE syntax definitions and styles.  The  "id-
	    iomatic"  method uses a format-specific highlighter if one is avail-
	    able, or the default style if the target  format  has  no  idiomatic
	    highlighting  method.  Setting this option to none disables all syn-
	    tax highlighting.  The "default" method uses a  format-specific  de-
	    fault.

	    Standard  styles are "pygments" (the default), "kate", "monochrome",
	    "breezeDark", "espresso", "zenburn", "haddock", and "tango".  Alter-
	    natively, the path of a .theme with a KDE syntax theme may	be  used
	    (in  this  case, the relevant file contents must also be included in
	    files, see below).

	    The default for HTML, EPUB, Docx, Ms, Man, and LaTeX  output  is  to
	    use  the  internal	highlighter with the default style; Typst output
	    relies on Typst's own syntax highlighting system by default.

     embed-resources
	    Embed images, scripts, styles and other resources in an  HTML  docu-
	    ment  using data URIs.  Note that this will not work unless the con-
	    tents of all external resources are included under files.

     html-q-tags (boolean, default false)
	    Use <q> elements in HTML instead of literal quotation marks.

     ascii (boolean, default false)
	    Use entities and escapes when possible to avoid non-ASCII characters
	    in the output.

     reference-links (boolean, default false)
	    Create reference links rather than inline links in Markdown output.

     reference-location ("document"|"section"|"block")
	    Determines whether link references and footnotes are placed  at  the
	    end of the document, the end of the section, or the end of the block
	    (e.g. paragraph), in certain formats.  (See pandoc(1) under --refer-
	    ence-location.)

     setext-headers (boolean, default false)
	    Use  Setext  (underlined)  headings  instead  of ATX (#-prefixed) in
	    Markdown output.

     top-level-division ("default"|"part"|"chapter"|"section")
	    Determines how top-level headings are interpreted in LaTeX, ConTeXt,
	    DocBook, and TEI.  The "default" value tries to choose the best  in-
	    terpretation based on heuristics.

     number-sections (boolean, default false)
	    Automatically number sections (in supported formats).

     number-offset (array of integers)
	    Offsets  to  be  added to each component of the section number.  For
	    example, [1] will cause the first section to be numbered "2" and the
	    first subsection "2.1"; [0,1] will cause the  first  section  to  be
	    numbered "1" and the first subsection "1.2."

     html-math-method ("plain"|"webtex"|"gladtex"|"mathml"|"mathjax"|"katex")
	    Determines how math is represented in HTML.

     listings (boolean, default false)
	    Use the listings package to format code in LaTeX output.

     incremental (boolean, default false)
	    If true, lists appear incrementally by default in slide shows.

     slide-level (integer)
	    Heading  level  that  deterimes slide divisions in slide shows.  The
	    default is to pick the highest heading level under	which  there  is
	    body text.

     section-divs (boolean, default false)
	    Arrange  the  document  into a hierarchy of nested sections based on
	    the headings.

     email-obfuscation ("none"|"references"|"javascript")
	    Determines how email addresses are obfuscated in HTML.

     identifier-prefix (string)
	    Prefix to be added to all automatically-generated identifiers.

     title-prefix (string)
	    Prefix to be added to the title in the HTML header.

     reference-doc (file path)
	    Reference doc to use in creating docx or odt or pptx.  See pandoc(1)
	    under --reference-doc for details.	The contents of the file must be
	    included under files.

     split-level (integer, default 1)
	    Heading level at which documents are split in EPUB or chunked HTML.

     epub-cover-image (file path)
	    Cover image for EPUB.  The contents of the file must be included un-
	    der files.

     epub-metadata (file path)
	    Path of file containing Dublin core XML elements to be used for EPUB
	    metadata.  The contents of the file must be included under files.

     epub-subdirectory (string, default "EPUB")
	    Name of content subdirectory in the EPUB container.

     epub-fonts (array of file paths)
	    Fonts to include in the EPUB.  The fonts themselves must be included
	    in files (see below).

     ipynb-output ("best"|"all"|"none")
	    Determines how ipynb output cells are treated.  all means  that  all
	    of	the  data  formats included in the original are preserved.  none
	    means that the contents of data cells are omitted.	best causes pan-
	    doc to try to pick the richest data block in each output  cell  that
	    is compatible with the output format.

     citeproc (boolean, default false)
	    Causes  citations  to be processed using citeproc.	See Citations in
	    pandoc(1) for details.

     bibliography (array of file paths)
	    Files containing bibliographic data.  The contents of the files must
	    be included in files.

     csl (file path)
	    CSL style file.  The contents of the file must be included in files.

     cite-method ("citeproc"|"natbib"|"biblatex")
	    Determines how citations are formatted in LaTeX output.

     files (JSON mapping of file paths to base64-encoded strings)
	    Any files needed for the conversion, including images referred to in
	    the document source, should be included here.  Binary data	must  be
	    base64-encoded.   Textual  data  may  be left as it is, unless it is
	    also valid base 64 data, in which case it will be  interpreted  that
	    way.

   /batch endpoint
     The  /batch  endpoint  behaves like the root endpoint, except for these two
     points:

     * It accepts a JSON array, each element of which is a JSON object like  the
       one expected by the root endpoint.

     * It returns a JSON array of JSON results.

     This  endpoint  can  be used to convert a sequence of small snippets in one
     request.

   /version endpoint
     The /version endpoint accepts a GET request and returns the pandoc  version
     as a plain or JSON-encoded string, depending on Accept headers.

   /babelmark endpoint
     The  /babelmark endpoint accepts a GET request with the following query pa-
     rameters:

     * text (required string)

     * from (optional string, default is "markdown")

     * to (optional string, default is "html")

     * standalone (optional boolean, default is false)

     It returns a JSON object with fields html and version.   This  endpoint  is
     designed to support the Babelmark website.

AUTHORS
     Copyright 2022 John MacFarlane (jgm@berkeley.edu).  Released under the GPL,
     version 2 or greater.  This software carries no warranty of any kind.  (See
     COPYRIGHT for full copyright and warranty notices.)

     The   Pandoc   source   code   may   be   downloaded   from  <https://hack-
     age.haskell.org/package/pandoc>	or    <https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/re-
     leases>.  Further documentation is available at <https://pandoc.org>.

pandoc 3.9.0.2			 August 15, 2022		pandoc-server(1)

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