limberer 0.2

A flexible document generator based on weasyprint, mustache templates, and pandoc.

Limberer: Flexible document generation based on WeasyPrint, mustache templates, and Pandoc.

limberer is a utility for assembling markdown into documents.

Usage

$ limberer create projname
$ cd projname
$ limberer build report.toml
$ open projname.pdf

Features

Coming soon...

Installation

Prerequisites

$ sudo apt-get install pandoc highlight

Note: If your distro has an older version of pandoc (e.g. 2.9.x), get it from https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/.

$ wget https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/<ver>/pandoc-<...>.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i ./pandoc-*.deb

Install

$ pip3 install --user limberer

From Source

$ git clone https://github.com/ChaosData/limberer && cd limberer
$ python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip setuptools
$ python3 -m pip install --user .

Packaging

$ python3 -m pip install --user wheel build
$ python3 -m build --sdist --wheel .
$ python3 -m pip install --user dist/limberer-*.whl

Cleaning

$ rm -rf ./build ./dist ./src/limberer.egg-info ./src/limberer/__pycache__

FAQ

Why?

For a litany of reasons, but if I had to go out on a limb and pick one, it would be that LaTeX is a great typesetter, but a terrible build system.

What!?

Greetz to asch, tanner, agrant, jblatz, and dthiel. <3