Convert Markdown to PDF within Sublime Text using Pandoc

pandoc.md2pdf.sublime-build

{
	"cmd": ["pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex --filter=pandoc-citeproc -o '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_name'"],
	"selector": "text.html.markdown",
	"shell": true
}

Requirements and features

• pandoc, pandoc-citeproc and xelatex must be installed and accessible from your PATH
• Excessive use of pandoc YAML metadata is recommended
• Handle bibliography and UTF-8

Add to Sublime Text

• Within Sublime Text: Tools > Build system > New build system...
• Paste this gist
• Save as pandoc.md2pdf.sublime-build

Usage

• Within Sublime Text, Tools > Build (Ctrl+b) to compile a markdown file to PDF
• Build your markdown, open the PDF with Evince, edit and re-build your markdown and Evince will automagically show the result!

Alternatives

• Monod (online, collaborative)
• HackMD (online, collaborative)
• Dillinger (online)

Doesn't work on my Windows machine

Outputs

'"pandoc -s -S -o 'pp.html' 'pp.md'"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
[Finished in 0.1s]

@mariohuq I am not familiar with Windows command line, but I suppose that you have to add the pandoc executable to your PATH.

I'm using pandoc version 1.19.2.4 , the updated snippet of @keuv-grvl should modify the argument name from --pdf-engine to --latex-engine.

@codingforpleasure Updated! I don't use SublimeText anymore, let me know if this snippet fails.

I think also that the --filter=pandoc-citeproc bit is no longer required in my version of pandoc (2.15) it worked without it.
However, I needed to add lmodern latex sty package by simply doing sudo apt-get install lmodern

Thanks for the gist!

I'm using pandoc version 1.19.2.4 , the updated snippet of @keuv-grvl should modify the argument name from --pdf-engine to --latex-engine.

As of today, the usage of latex-engine is no longer possible for pandoc v2.19.2 (windows tested) see my console output :

PS > pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex -o 'README.pdf' 'README.md'
--latex-engine has been removed.  Use --pdf-engine instead.
Try pandoc.exe --help for more information.
PS > pandoc -v
pandoc.exe 2.19.2
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22.2.1, texmath 0.12.5.2, skylighting 0.13,
citeproc 0.8.0.1, ipynb 0.2, hslua 2.2.1
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: C:\Users\%USER%\AppData\Roaming\pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2022 John MacFarlane. Web:  https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
PS > $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.2.7
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.2.7
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19043
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

I'm using pandoc v2.9.2.1 on Linux Mint (21.3) and by changing --latex-engine=xelatex to --pdf-engine=pdflatex things were back in working order:

{
	"cmd": ["pandoc --pdf-engine=pdflatex --filter=pandoc-citeproc -o '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_name'"],
	"selector": "text.html.markdown",
	"shell": true
}

There are several pdf engines you can use, including xelatex as used above: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--pdf-engine

This is the error in my MacOS.

pandoc: : withBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

I actually had problems with previous solutions but this worked for me:

{ "cmd": ["pandoc --pdf-engine=pdflatex --citeproc -o '$file_base_name.pdf' '$file_name'"], "selector": "text.html.markdown", "shell": true }