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Complete reference for the normadocs command-line interface.

Commands

normadocs convert

Converts a Markdown file to a formatted DOCX/PDF.

normadocs convert INPUT_FILE [OPTIONS]

Arguments: | Argument | Description | |----------|-------------| | INPUT_FILE | Path to input Markdown file (required) |

Options: | Option | Short | Description | Default | |--------|-------|-------------|---------| | --output-dir | -o | Output directory | ./output | | --format | -f | Output format: docx, pdf, or all | docx | | --style | -s | Citation style: apa, icontec, ieee | apa | | --bibliography | -b | BibTeX file for citations | - | | --csl | -c | CSL style file | - | | --language-tool | - | Enable LanguageTool checking | false | | --lt-strict | - | Strict LanguageTool mode | false |

Examples:

# Basic conversion (APA style)
normadocs document.md

# ICONTEC style with PDF
normadocs document.md -s icontec -f all

# With bibliography
normadocs document.md -b refs.bib -c apa.csl

# With LanguageTool
normadocs document.md --language-tool

normadocs --version

Shows the installed version.

normadocs --version

normadocs --help

Shows help information.

normadocs --help