mmd to latex to pdf (is there a simple default option?)
KarolisK
Hello.
First I want to add to the praises you probably are getting on a daily basis - I use mmd for html creation and can't imagine turning on my computer without it.
Recently however I had to also compile some pdf documents (from the mmd files I already had turned into html). I though this will be easy. But I found out that without latex-support files the generated tex files cannot be used (they have \part and \chapter sections without the appropriate class loaded).
And even with the support files - you have to craft metadata to achieve some sort of result.
So my question: Is there a way to get past that and get any kind of default output that would do mdd -> latex -> pdf without the meta headers? I spent a bit of time looking around and thought "multimarkdown -t memoir" would add necessary classes to the tex, but it didn't.
And the follow-up (if there is no default way): couldn't the needed classes/input files be added to the .tex output by a parsing script (like mmd2pdf) instead of being in the meta?
(sorry if my lack of latex knowledge shows).
Warm regards.
KK.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by fletcher on Sep 04, 2014 @ 03:37 PM
Without specifying this information, there's no way for me to know what
type of "LaTeX PDF" you want. Book? Article? Beamer? Letterhead?
The approach I use is TextExpander snippets. I want to write a letter
-- no problem ".letter" and the appropriate metadata is there and all
set for me to tab between fields to enter a recipient, etc. Same with a
slideshow for a presentation, etc.
There is no such thing as a "LaTeX" document per se -- it's a framework
for creating lots of types of documents, and the metadata is required to
configure things.
You could write a wrapper script to do what you ask, but it would then
be limited to the set up you want, which is likely different from the
set-up I want, which is likely different from what everyone else wants.
Fletcher