Editing Courses/EPUB/day2 (section)

==Pandoc==
[http://www.johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ Pandoc] is the Swiss-army knife' of text converters, an Open Source software application able to convert between a wide variety of document formats, or to be more precise '''Markup languages'''. 

In the workflow we'll be working on, Pandoc is the central tool for converting documents between different formats, until we arrive at an ePub. 

If we happen to start with a Microsoft Word document, Pandoc can be used to convert that document to Markdown, and later used for converting the Markdown to EPUB.

'''Note: Pandoc can only convert between markup languages'''. 
If content is not in a markup language, if it is in a PDF or doc file, it will be impossible for Pandoc to convert it. Yet, there are way around it. 
Microsoft Word '''docx''' and its open source counterpart '''odt''', are essential XML (a markup language) based file formats. 
This fact allows them to be converted to markup languages with Pandoc.