diff --git a/markdown.moon b/markdown.moon
deleted file mode 100644
index 531e3d5..0000000
--- a/markdown.moon
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-import Renderer from require "sitegen.renderer"
-
-dollar_temp = "0000sitegen_markdown00dollar0000"
-
--- a constructor for quote delimited strings
-simple_string = (delim) ->
-  import P from require "lpeg"
-
-  inner = P("\\#{delim}") + "\\\\" + (1 - P delim)
-  inner = inner^0
-  P(delim) * inner * P(delim)
-
-lua_string = ->
-  import P, C, Cmt, Cb, Cg from require "lpeg"
-  check_lua_string = (str, pos, right, left) ->
-    #left == #right
-
-  string_open = P"[" * P"="^0 * "["
-  string_close = P"]" * P"="^0 * "]"
-
-  valid_close = Cmt C(string_close) * Cb"string_open", check_lua_string
-
-  Cg(string_open, "string_open") *
-    (1 - valid_close)^0 * string_close
-
--- returns a pattern that parses a cosmo template. Can be used to have
--- pre-processors ignore text that would be handled by cosmo
-parse_cosmo = ->
-  import P, R, Cmt, Cs, V from require "lpeg"
-  curly = P {
-    P"{" * (
-      simple_string("'") +
-      simple_string('"') +
-      lua_string! +
-      V(1) +
-      (P(1) - "}")
-    )^0 * P"}"
-  }
-
-  alphanum = R "az", "AZ", "09", "__"
-  P"$" * alphanum^1 * (curly)^-1
-
-escape_cosmo = (str) ->
-  escapes = {}
-  import P, R, Cmt, Cs, V from require "lpeg"
-
-  counter = 0
-
-  cosmo = parse_cosmo! / (tpl) ->
-    counter += 1
-    key = "#{dollar_temp}.#{counter}"
-    escapes[key] = tpl
-    key
-
-  patt = Cs (cosmo + P(1))^0 * P(-1)
-  str = patt\match(str) or str, escapes
-  str, escapes
-
-unescape_cosmo = (str, escapes) ->
-  import P, R, Cmt, Cs from require "lpeg"
-
-  escape_patt = P(dollar_temp) * P(".") * R("09")^1 / (key) ->
-    escapes[key] or error "bad key for unescape_cosmo"
-
-  patt = Cs (escape_patt + P(1))^0 * P(-1)
-  assert patt\match(str)
-
--- Converts input from markdown, then passes through cosmo filter from HTML
--- renderer
-class MarkdownRenderer extends require "sitegen.renderers.html"
-  @escape_cosmo: escape_cosmo
-  @unescape_cosmo: unescape_cosmo
-  @parse_cosmo: parse_cosmo
-
-  source_ext: "md"
-  ext: "html"
-
-  render: (page, md_source) =>
-    -- discount = require "discount"
-    md_source = page\pipe "renderer.markdown.pre_render", md_source
-    md_source, escapes = escape_cosmo md_source
-
-    markup_filename = os.tmpname!
-    input_handle = io.popen "pandoc > #{markup_filename}", "w"
-    input_handle\write md_source
-    input_handle\close!
-
-    output_handle = io.open markup_filename, "r"
-    result = output_handle\read "*a"
-    output_handle\close!
-
-    html_source = assert result
-    -- html_source = assert discount md_source
-    html_source = unescape_cosmo html_source, escapes
-
-    super page, html_source
-
diff --git a/renderers/markdown.moon b/renderers/markdown.moon
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..846b081
--- /dev/null
+++ b/renderers/markdown.moon
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+class PandocRenderer extends require "sitegen.renderers.markdown"
+  unescape_cosmo = @unescape_cosmo
+  escape_cosmo = @escape_cosmo
+
+  command: "pandoc"
+
+  render: (page, md_source) =>
+    md_source = page\pipe "renderer.markdown.pre_render", md_source
+    md_source, escapes = escape_cosmo md_source
+
+    markup_filename = os.tmpname!
+    input_handle = io.popen @command .. " > " .. markup_filename, "w"
+    input_handle\write md_source
+    input_handle\close!
+
+    output_handle = io.open markup_filename, "r"
+    result = output_handle\read "*a"
+    output_handle\close!
+
+    html_source = assert result
+    html_source = unescape_cosmo html_source, escapes
+
+    super page, html_source
diff --git a/site.moon b/site.moon
index 6b30c3e..8ab533f 100644
--- a/site.moon
+++ b/site.moon
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ html = require "sitegen.html"
 lfs = require "lfs"
 date = require "date"
 
--- Monkey-patch sitegen to use pandoc for markdown conversion
-os.execute "moonc -t \\
-  /usr/local/openresty/luajit/share/lua/5.1/sitegen/renderers/ markdown.moon"
-
 -- Change output dir to what Openresty prefers
 site.config.out_dir = "html/"
 
@@ -19,6 +15,13 @@ site.config.out_dir = "html/"
 site.default_plugins = for v in *site.default_plugins
   if v\find "pygments" then continue else v
 
+-- Remove default markdown renderer
+site.default_renderers = for v in *site.default_renderers
+  if v\find "markdown" then continue else v
+
+-- Add pandoc markdown renderer
+table.insert site.default_renderers, "renderers.markdown"
+
 rootname = (str) ->
   result = string.gsub str, "%..+", ""
   result