For a better solution, see my Jekyll Pandoc plugin.

This is a fork of jekyll, a lightweight static website generator, adding support for pandoc via the pandoc-ruby gem. The modified version of jekyll lives on the pandoc-ruby branch. To get the goods,

git clone [email protected]:dsanson/jekyll.git -b pandoc-ruby

Then, from within the cloned directory,

gem build jekyll.gemspec
gem install jekyll-x-x-x.gem

To use the pandoc support, add something like

markdown 	: rdiscount
pandoc      :
	extensions : [smart, mathjax]

to your _config.yml.

Note that you should not set markdown to pandoc. I wanted to have a single _config.yml that works with pandoc on my own machine, but gracefully falls back to something else when pandoc is not available (e.g., on github pages). So set markdown to the fallback converter (rdiscount is a good choice), and either set pandoc to true, i.e.,

pandoc    : true

or provide some command line options to pass to pandoc, as in the example above.So long as a pandoc config variable has been set, jekyll will use pandoc instead of the fallback converter.