Markdown to PDF

Makefile

TEMP_DIR:=$(shell mktemp -d -t /tmp)
MARKDOWN=perl Resources/Markdown.pl
WKHTMLTOPDF=/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
BUILD_DIR=Build
MD_OUTPUT=Documentation.md
HTML_OUTPUT=Documentation.html
PDF_OUTPUT=Documentation.pdf
COVER=__Couverture

all: convert clean
	@echo -- The documentation has been successfully generated and can be found in $(BUILD_DIR)/$(PDF_OUTPUT)

cprsrc:
	@echo -n -- Copying documents and resources...
	@ditto *.md $(TEMP_DIR)/
	@ditto Assets $(TEMP_DIR)/Assets
	@echo ' Done.'

convert: html2pdf

concat: cprsrc
	@echo -n -- Concatenating the Markdown files...
	@cat $(TEMP_DIR)/0*.md > $(TEMP_DIR)/$(MD_OUTPUT)
	@echo ' Done.'

md2html: concat
	@echo -n -- Converting Markdown documents to HTML...
	@$(MARKDOWN) $(TEMP_DIR)/$(COVER).md > $(TEMP_DIR)/$(COVER).html
	@$(MARKDOWN) $(TEMP_DIR)/$(MD_OUTPUT) > $(TEMP_DIR)/$(HTML_OUTPUT)
	@echo ' Done.'

html2pdf: md2html
	@echo -- Converting the HTML documents to PDFs...
	@$(WKHTMLTOPDF) \
		--load-error-handling ignore \
		--encoding utf-8 \
		--user-style-sheet Resources/Styles.css \
		--minimum-font-size 14 \
		--footer-left "[date]" \
		--footer-right "[page] / [topage]" \
		--footer-font-size 10 \
		cover $(TEMP_DIR)/$(COVER).html \
		toc \
			--disable-dotted-lines \
			--xsl-style-sheet Resources/TOC.xsl \
		$(TEMP_DIR)/$(HTML_OUTPUT) \
		$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PDF_OUTPUT)

clean:
	@rm -rf $(TEMP_DIR)

test:
	@open $(BUILD_DIR)/$(PDF_OUTPUT)

.PHONY: all

@abalter this is a Makefile; it's meant to be used with Make instead of executed in bash. Check out this article for some motivation Why Use Make.

I assume this makefile is for a MAC since it uses ditto? Is there too much to change to convert it to Linux?

perl Resources/Markdown.pl ?? where we can find this code?

perl Resources/Markdown.pl ?? where we can find this code?

I don't remember exactly, but it's probably this: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/