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$MD4PDF/README.md

md4pdf

For markdown files containing up to five level of heading, here are three small resources for smoother conversion to pdf using Pandoc calling XeLaTeX. Setup is a little tricky, but the result is something I use almost very day to convert my personal markdown notes to PDF so I can easily read them anywhere (but mostly on my Android devices).

requirements

• LaTeX, Pandoc and my adapted pandoc-templates

configuration

• Linux: environment variable $MD4PDF set to the the path of this file's directory

• Windows 10: a pdf viewer that doesn't lock the pdf file, such as SumatraPDF

• heading styles are decided by whichever file is symlinked to latex/m4p/headings.sty - in my case, decided in the Pandoc sections of these shell configuration files:

  • $AjB/bashrc-wm
  • $MSWin10/PSProfile.ps1

• your Pandoc's defaults directory needs these:

  • md4pdfToC.yaml - symlinked from $MD4PDF/defaults-toc.yaml
  • md4pdf.yaml - symlinked from $MD4PDF/defaults.yaml

fonts

Arimo Regular Nerd Font Complete can handle "•"

language snags

• Burmese
• -V CJKmainfont='Noto Sans CJK SC:style=Regular' doesn't cope with "长城"