It indicates output to gnu troff using the ms macros.  These are available on most Unix derivatives.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:10 PM, John Gabriele <jgabriele@fastmail.fm> wrote:
What output format does the `ms` indicate in `pandoc -t ms -o your.pdf`?


On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, at 1:46 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> I personally use pdf via latex, and the only things I ever
> mess with are fonts, font sizes, line stretch, and margins.
>
> Don't forget that if you want a really fast PDF,
> pandoc now offers `-t ms -o your.pdf`, which is
> extremely fast and has lightweight dependencies.
> You can customize pointsize, lineheight, fontfamily,
> paragraph indent, and papersize in metadata; other
> changes (e.g. to margins) currently require raw
> groff commands or a custom template.

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