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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

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Getting started

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

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	account
	list [options] #List the imported subscriptions
	show [options] [subscriptionNameOrId] #Show details about a subscription
	set [options] <subscriptionNameOrId> #Set the current subscription
	clear [options] #Remove a subscription or environment, or clear all of the stored account and environment info
	import [options] <file> #Import a publishsettings file or certificate for your account
	download [options] #Launch a browser to download your publishsettings file
	env... #Commands to manage your account environment

	Plugboard = Hash[*('A'..'Z').to_a.sample(20)]
	Plugboard.merge!(Plugboard.invert)
	Plugboard.default_proc = proc { \|_, key\| key }

	def build_a_rotor
	Hash[('A'..'Z').zip(('A'..'Z').to_a.shuffle)]
	end

	ROTOR_1, ROTOR_2, ROTOR_3 = build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor, build_a_rotor

	* Monday
	Cisco: http://tweetvite.com/event/crepestack
	Mirantis: http://openstacksummitnovember2014paris.sched.org/event/5c3f044471d857d8cff5de124f838040#.VE-i0MlayeI
	NewStack: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-new-stack-warmup-at-openstack-tickets-13396753049
	* Tuesday
	Canonicial: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-of-world-class-paris-culture-registration-13697167597
	CloudBeers: http://www.meetup.com/CloudBeers/events/212087532/
	HP: http://openstackparis.scality.com/
	Midokura: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midonet-launch-party-tickets-13977159059
	* Wednesday

	import urllib2
	import re
	import sys
	from collections import defaultdict
	from random import random

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