MARKDOWN2PDF(1)

NAME

markdown2pdf - converts markdown-formatted text to PDF, using pdflatex

SYNOPSIS

markdown2pdf [options] [input-file]...

DESCRIPTION

markdown2pdf converts input-file (or text from standard input) from markdown-formatted plain text to PDF, using pdflatex. If no output filename is specified (using the -o option), the name of the output file is derived from the input file; thus, for example, if the input file is hello.txt, the output file will be hello.pdf. If the input is read from STDIN and no output filename is specified, the output file will be named stdin.pdf. If multiple input files are specified, they will be concatenated before conversion, and the name of the output file will be derived from the first input file.

Input is assumed to be in the UTF–8 character encoding. If your local character encoding is not UTF–8, you should pipe input through iconv:

      iconv -t utf-8 input.txt | markdown2pdf

markdown2pdf assumes that the unicode, array, fancyvrb, graphicx, and ulem packages are in latex's search path. If these packages are not included in your latex setup, they can be obtained from <http://ctan.org>.

OPTIONS

markdown2pdf is a wrapper around pandoc, so all of pandoc's options can be used with markdown2pdf as well. See pandoc(1) for a complete list. The following options are most relevant:

-o FILE, --output=FILE
    Write output to FILE.

--strict
    Use strict markdown syntax, with no extensions or variants.

-N, --number-sections
    Number section headings in LaTeX output. (Default is not to number them.)

-H FILE, --include-in-header=FILE
    Include (LaTeX) contents of FILE at the end of the header. Implies -s.

-B FILE, --include-before-body=FILE
    Include (LaTeX) contents of FILE at the beginning of the document body.

-A FILE, --include-after-body=FILE
    Include (LaTeX) contents of FILE at the end of the document body.

-C FILE, --custom-header=FILE
    Use contents of FILE as the LaTeX document header (overriding the default header, which can be printed using pandoc -D latex). Implies -s.

SEE ALSO

pandoc(1), pdflatex(1)

AUTHOR
John MacFarlane and Recai Oktas