VS Code task to generate PDF files from Markdown using Pandoc and LaTeX.

tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Create PDF from current Markdown file (Pandoc)",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "pandoc",
            "args": [
                "--from=markdown",
                "--to=latex",
                "-V",
                "geometry:margin=2cm",
                "-V",
                "author: Jonas Bernard",
                "-V",
                "title: ${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
                "-o",
                "${relativeFileDirname}${pathSeparator}${fileBasenameNoExtension}.pdf",
                "-t", 
                "latex",
                "${file}",
            ],
            "problemMatcher": []
        }
    ]
}