Anthony Dahanne anthonydahanne

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

	git checkout -b other-main
	git push origin other-main
	gh api -XPATCH "repos/pivotal-cf/tanzu-bellsoft-liberica" -f default_branch="other-main" >/dev/null
	git push --delete tanzu main
	gh api "repos/pivotal-cf/tanzu-bellsoft-liberica/branches/other-main/rename" -f new_name="main" >/dev/null
	git checkout main
	git pull origin main

	# from https://stackoverflow.com/a/67638584/24069
	# read each item in the JSON array to an item in the Bash array
	set +x
	readarray -t my_array < <(jq --raw-output '.[]' $1)


	# iterate through the Bash array
	for item in "${my_array[@]}"; do
	git clone [email protected]:$item.git &>/dev/null
	cd ${item#*/}

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	echo "gh label -R $repository create hacktoberfest --description \"Hacktoberfest eligible\" --color D93F0B --force"
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	echo "gh repo edit $repository --add-topic hacktoberfest"
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	echo "gh issue edit $number -R $repository --add-label \"hacktoberfest\""
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	done

	#!/bin/bash
	for n in $(git tag)
	do
	if [ $n != "v6.0.4" ]; then
	git tag ${n/v} $n
	git tag -d $n
	git push origin ${n/v} :$n
	fi
	done