#!/bin/sh # converts markdown to latex, then uses latex to make a PDF pathfind () { # portable which(1), code taken from Debian Developer's Reference OLDIFS="$IFS" IFS=: for _p in $PATH; do if [ -x "$_p/$*" ]; then IFS="$OLDIFS" return 0 fi done IFS="$OLDIFS" return 1 } for p in pandoc pdflatex; do pathfind $p || { echo >&2 "You need '$p' to use this program!" exit 1 } done outfile= for option; do if [ -n "$prev" ]; then eval "$prev=\$option" prev= shift continue fi optarg=$(expr "x$option" : 'x[^=]*=\(.*\)') case $option in -h | --h | --help ) help=1 shift ;; -o | --o | --output ) prev=outfile shift ;; -o=* | --o=* | --output=* ) outfile=$optarg shift ;; -* ) echo >&2 "$0: unknown option: $option; aborting" exit 1 ;; * ) break ;; esac done [ -z "$help" ] || { echo >&2 "Usage: $0 [-o|--output output-file] [input-file]" exit 0 } infile=$1 if [ -z "$outfile" ]; then if [ -n "$infile" ]; then outfile=${infile%.*}.pdf else outfile='stdin.pdf' # input is STDIN, since no argument given fi fi BASE=${outfile##*/} BASE=${BASE%.*} set -e TEMP=${TMPDIR-/tmp}/markdown2pdf.$$ trap "status=$?; rm -rf $TEMP; exit $status" 0 INT mkdir -p $TEMP iconv -t utf-8 $infile | \ pandoc $PANDOC_OPTS -w latex -s | \ iconv -f utf-8 > $TEMP/$BASE.tex && ( cd $TEMP if ! pdflatex -interaction=batchmode $BASE.tex >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo >&2 "LaTeX errors:" cat >&2 $BASE.log exit 1 fi ) || exit $? is_target_exists= if [ -f $outfile ]; then is_target_exists=1 mv -f $outfile $outfile~ fi mv -f $TEMP/$BASE.pdf $outfile printf "Created $outfile" >&2 [ -z "$is_target_exists" ] || { printf " (previous file has been backed up as '$outfile~')" >&2 } echo >&2 .