10 engineers on Hacker News describe using Pandoc first-hand: 3 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Pandoc locally (great tool, but not always installed where I'm working)”
endorse · personal · Thomas-Wilson · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Even pandoc cannot compile to Word files that work reliably enough.”
regret · production · jonathanstrange · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using pandoc for years (admittedly mostly for markdown --> pdf/html/docx...) and never run into a bug.”
endorse · personal · paultopia · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using markdown+pandoc [2] for a book of stories for my family.”
endorse · personal · akeck · 2015-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“couldn't be easily supported by pandoc or this script”
regret · production · swah · 2012-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“have currently ended up using CopyAsMarkdown [4] (with Pandoc) and WebToEpub [5]”
neutral · personal · pidgeon_lover · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I authored in markdown, used pandoc to convert and then further edited in libreoffice”
neutral · personal · MarcScott · 2020-08-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we converted to markdown with pandoc”
neutral · production · therealmarv · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The syntax only worked in Markdown at the time, so I went with that.”
neutral · personal · timtylin · 2015-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most recently vim-outliner, an outlining plug-in for vim, also Pandoc, and in the past two years... LaTeX.”
neutral · personal · dredmorbius · 2014-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?