pandoc-plot

A Pandoc filter to generate figures from code blocks in documents

pandoc-plot turns code blocks present in your documents (Markdown, LaTeX, etc.) into embedded figures, using your plotting toolkit of choice, including Matplotlib, ggplot2, MATLAB, Mathematica, and more.

Overview

This program is a Pandoc filter. It can therefore be used in the middle of conversion from input format to output format, replacing code blocks with figures.

The filter recognizes code blocks with classes that match plotting toolkits. For example, using the matplotlib toolkit:

# My document

This is a paragraph.

```{.matplotlib}
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure()
plt.plot([0,1,2,3,4], [1,2,3,4,5])
plt.title('This is an example figure')
```

Putting the above in input.md, we can then generate the plot and embed it in an HTML page:

pandoc --filter pandoc-plot input.md --output output.html

Note that pandoc-plot only works with pandoc >= 2.11 because of some breaking changes in pandoc’s API.

Supported toolkits

pandoc-plot currently supports the following plotting toolkits (installed separately):

• matplotlib: plots using the matplotlib Python library;
• plotly_python : plots using the plotly Python library;
• plotly_r: plots using the plotly R library
• matlabplot: plots using MATLAB;
• mathplot : plots using Mathematica;
• octaveplot: plots using GNU Octave;
• ggplot2: plots using ggplot2;
• gnuplot: plots using gnuplot;
• graphviz: graphs using Graphviz;
• bokeh: plots using the Bokeh visualization library;
• plotsjl: plots using the Julia Plots.jl package;
• plantuml: diagrams using the PlantUML software suite.

To know which toolkits are useable on your machine (and which ones are not available), you can check with the toolkits command:

pandoc-plot toolkits

Wish your plotting toolkit of choice was available? Please raise an issue!

Documentation

You can find more information in the documentation, available either in the source repository file MANUAL.md, on the webpage, or via the command pandoc-plot --manual.

Installation

Binaries and Installers

Windows, Linux, and Mac OS binaries are available on the GitHub release page. There are also Windows installers.

conda

Like pandoc, pandoc-plot is available as a package installable with conda. Click here to see the package page.

To install in the current environment:

conda install -c conda-forge pandoc-plot

winget

You can install pandoc-plot from the Windows Package Manager winget (just like pandoc). To install:

winget install pandoc-plot

Arch Linux

You can install pandoc-plot from the archlinux user repository as pandoc-plot-bin. You can install using e.g. yay:

yay -S pandoc-plot-bin

From Hackage/Stackage

pandoc-plot is available on Hackage and Stackage. Using the cabal-install tool:

cabal update
cabal install pandoc-plot

or

stack update
stack install pandoc-plot

From source

Building from source can be done using stack or cabal:

git clone https://github.com/LaurentRDC/pandoc-plot
cd pandoc-plot
stack install # Alternatively, `cabal install`