Calling the pandoc executable under the name pandoc-lua
or with lua as the first argument will make it function as
a standalone Lua interpreter. The behavior is mostly identical to that
of the standalone
lua executable, version 5.4. All pandoc.*
packages, as well as the packages re and lpeg,
are available via global variables. Furthermore, the globals
PANDOC_VERSION, PANDOC_STATE, and
PANDOC_API_VERSION are set at startup. For full
documentation, see the pandoc-lua
man page.