Mardown to PDF conversion using pandoc

md2pdf

#!/bin/bash

# Convert Markdown to PDF using pandoc
# Last modified: tor aug 20, 2020  02:51
# Johan Nylander
# TODO: set mainfont to allow for special characters () -V 'mainfont:xxx xx'

hash pandoc 2>/dev/null || { echo >&2 "Cannot find pandoc. Aborting."; exit 1; }

for f in "$@"
do
  echo -n "Converting ${f} ..."
  g=${f%.md}.pdf
  pandoc --wrap=auto \
      --pdf-engine=xelatex \
      -V 'mainfont:DejaVuSerif' \
      -V 'mainfontoptions:Extension=.ttf, UprightFont=*, BoldFont=*-Bold, ItalicFont=*-Italic, BoldItalicFont=*-BoldItalic' \
      -V 'sansfont:DejaVuSans.ttf' \
      -V 'monofont:DejaVuSansMono.ttf' \
      -V 'mathfont:texgyredejavu-math.otf' \
      --columns=180 -V geometry:margin=1in "$f" -o "$g"
  if [ -e "$g" ]; then
    echo " to ${g}"
  fi
done