Pandoc Templates: A Curated Directory for Markdown-to-Anything Publishing

Pandoc-templates.org catalogs community-built templates that turn plain Markdown into polished output across dozens of document types. The collection spans academic work (PhD theses, IEEE and NeurIPS papers, statistics journals, MLA-formatted essays), professional documents (résumés, cover letters, invoices, DIN 5008 German business letters), and creative writing (novels in Shunn manuscript format, poetry, epub books, tabletop RPG campaign books).

The templates lean on Pandoc’s LaTeX, HTML, and DOCX backends, with styling options ranging from classless CSS frameworks like new.css and water.css to Bootstrap-based layouts and Tufte CSS. Several entries target slide decks, including reveal.js templates and terminal-based tools like patat. Build workflows typically involve a Makefile or Docker, keeping the toolchain reproducible.

The site functions less as a tutorial and more as a discovery layer for the sprawling Pandoc ecosystem, where individual authors have solved narrow formatting problems—UCL dissertation submissions, Scottish Government branded reports, academic cover letters in R Markdown—and published their work for reuse.