Roadmap

Pandoc doesn't have a strict roadmap but this page should serve as an overview about major changes to pandoc that are under consideration.

See also the Task list issue.

AST changes

• Attributes for all elements
• changing String to Text everywhere
• a Figure block element, capable of containing multiple images
• short and long captions for tables, figures, headers
• internal links/references to tables and figures
• PageBreak element
• replace Strikeout element with a Deleted element; add an Inserted element
• colspans in tables (and possibly also rowspan)
• change Format from String to a sum type
• Endnotes support for Docx, ODT and Muse

Filters/JSON

• changing JSON serialization format to be more human-readable, less Haskell-ADT-oriented, see this comment

YAML/command-line metadata handling

• Feature request: Ability to specify a YAML metadata file for all reader types
• Specify command-line options using YAML metadata
• Command-line options --css and --include-in-header override corresponding metadata fields instead of accumulating
• Combining multiple metadata blocks
• Allow complex metadata fields to be defined on the command line (e.g. using JSON)
• Change merge-behaviour of two metadata blocks

Other

• Custom styles in ODT, ICML (and maybe LaTeX and RST) writers (maybe also in Docbook)
• Image alignment in more readers and writers