pymarktex 1.4.6

Will convert a markdown text file to a fancy PDF document

pymarktex version 1.4.6

This program creates a PDF file out of a specifically formated markdown text file. In particular, the markdown file can contain extra information that will be included in the final PDF with a fancy header. See the example included.

Prerequisites

Since pymarktex is written in python, it is compatible with all operating systems: Linux, macOS and Windows. The main prerequisite is python3 (which is often installed by default) along with the pip3 package manager.

To check if you have python3 installed, type the following on your terminal:

$ python3 -V

If you do not have python3 installed, please refer to the section obtaining python3.

To check you have pip3 installed, type the following on your terminal:

$ pip3 -V

If you do not have pip3 installed, please refer to the section obtaining pip3.

Dependencies

The pymarktex package requires two other external tools to function. These are pandoc and xelatex

Obtaining pandoc

Pandoc is a text conversion engine. The pandoc executable should be in your $PATH. To install it on a recent Ubuntu distribution simply type:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install pandoc

Obtaining xelatex

This is type setting engine that creates PDF output. The xelatex executable should be in your $PATH.

To install it on a recent Ubuntu distribution simply type:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Otherwise if that does not work, you can use the installer from the TeX Live package:

$ wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
$ tar xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
$ cd install-tl-*
$ ./install-tl -gui text

Installing

To install the pymarktex package, simply type the following commands on your terminal:

$ pip3 install --user pymarktex

Alternatively, if you want to install it for all users of the system:

$ sudo pip3 install pymarktex

Usage

You can use it from the shell like this:

$ pymarktex lorem.md

And it will generate the corresponding lorem.pdf file in the same directory.

Extra documentation

More documentation is available at:

http://xapple.github.io/pymarktex/pymarktex

This documentation is simply generated with:

$ pdoc --html --output-dir docs --force pymarktex