This helper module exports the main writers, readers, and data structure definitions from the Pandoc libraries.

A typical application will chain together a reader and a writer to convert strings from one format to another. For example, the following simple program will act as a filter converting markdown fragments to reStructuredText, using reference-style links instead of inline links:

 module Main where
 import Text.Pandoc
 -- include the following two lines only if you're using ghc < 6.12:
 import Prelude hiding (getContents, putStrLn)
 import System.IO.UTF8

 markdownToRST :: String -> String
 markdownToRST =
   (writeRST defaultWriterOptions {writerReferenceLinks = True}) .
   readMarkdown defaultParserState
 
 main = getContents >>= putStrLn . markdownToRST

Note: all of the readers assume that the input text has '\n' line endings. So if you get your input text from a web form, you should remove '\r' characters using filter (/='\r').