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My Pandoc Markdown-PDF Workflow for Routine, Not Especially Technical, Writing

by Danny Quah, Aug 2020 (revised Jan 2022)

TL;DR: I write technical articles in LaTeX. But shorter, non-technical writings are easier to do in Markdown. How do I produce PDF from Markdown documents? Answer: provide YAML information in the Markdown; run Pandoc (typically through a Makefile or Atom's Markdown Preview Enhanced). To make all this work, some adjustment is needed in Pandoc options and template files.

Pandoc is a filter that takes a written document in a particular format, and produces a version of that same document in yet a different format. I use Pandoc primarily to transform Markdown documents to PDF, but I also draw on Pandoc to convert Word or ODT documents to Markdown. And vice versa.

Available official Pandoc documentation is voluminous. So as a matter of logic the knowledge to generate PDF from Markdown, to the user's desired degree of control, is already extant, out there somewhere. But a user j

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	#Returns a single character from standard input
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	old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(fd)
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	ch = sys.stdin.read(1)
	finally:
	termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)

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	CB_color_cycle = ['#377eb8', '#ff7f00', '#4daf4a',
	'#f781bf', '#a65628', '#984ea3',
	'#999999', '#e41a1c', '#dede00']