Beautiful PDF generator out of Markdown powered by podman

generate_pdf.sh

#!/bin/zsh

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##  Author: [email protected]          ##
##  Takes Markdown file `in.md` and   ##
##  converts it into a LaTeX PDF !!   ##
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# Create a listings setup for code blocks
cat <<EOF > listings-setup.tex
\usepackage{xcolor}
\lstset{
    basicstyle=\ttfamily,
    keywordstyle=\color[rgb]{0.13,0.29,0.53}\bfseries,
    stringstyle=\color[rgb]{0.31,0.60,0.02},
    commentstyle=\color[rgb]{0.56,0.35,0.01}\itshape,
    backgroundcolor=\color[RGB]{248,248,248},
    showspaces=false,
    showstringspaces=false,
    showtabs=false,
    tabsize=2,
    captionpos=b,
    breaklines=true,
    breakatwhitespace=true,
    breakautoindent=true,
    escapeinside={\%*}{*)},
    linewidth=\textwidth,
    basewidth=0.5em,
}
EOF
# Create a Containerfile
cat <<EOF > Containerfile
FROM registry.redhat.io/rhel7:7.9-983.1679306060
RUN yum install -y https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum install -y pandoc pandoc-citeproc texlive
COPY in.md /tmp/
COPY listings-setup.tex /tmp/
RUN pandoc -f markdown_github --listings -H /tmp/listings-setup.tex -V geometry:margin=0.3in -o /tmp/out.pdf /tmp/in.md
EOF
# Build a container
podman build -t pandoc-citeproc -f Containerfile .
# Run the container
podman run --name pandoc-citeproc pandoc-citeproc
# Copy the out.pdf from inside the container
podman cp pandoc-citeproc:/tmp/out.pdf .
# Cleanup
podman rm pandoc-citeproc
podman rmi localhost/pandoc-citeproc
rm -vf listings-setup.tex Containerfile