Run script for Markdown —Pandoc&latexmk→ PDF Beamer presentation generation

run.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Small script to call Pandoc and latexmk
# Andreas Herten, Jan 2016

import argparse, subprocess, os


if __name__ == '__main__':
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description = "Run LaTeX generation", prefix_chars="-+")
	parser.add_argument("-v", "--verbose", action="count", help="Turns on verbose for latexmk (-v) and verbose for pandoc (-vv)")
	parser.add_argument("-c", "--clean", action="store_true", help="Let latexmk clean all temporary files after typesetting")
	parser.add_argument("-o", "--noopen", action="store_true", help="Do not open the PDF after typesetting")
	parser.add_argument("filename", metavar="filename", type=str, help="File to process into slides; probably Markdown.")
	parser.add_argument("paramsPandoc", metavar="paramsPandoc", nargs="?", type=str, help="Params passed to Pandoc for creating the .tex file", default="")
	parser.add_argument("paramsLaTeX", metavar="paramsLaTeX", nargs="?", type=str, help="Params passed to latexmk for typsetting the PDF; most of the default ones are set in the .latexmkrc file.", default="")
	args = parser.parse_args()

	latexParams = str(args.paramsLaTeX)

	if not (args.verbose):
		args.paramsLaTeX += " -silent"
	if (args.verbose > 1):
		args.paramsPandoc += " -v"

	filenameWOExtension = str(os.path.splitext(args.filename)[0])
	filenameTex = filenameWOExtension + ".tex"
	filenamePdf = filenameWOExtension + ".pdf"

	pandocInvokation = str("pandoc -t beamer -s " + str(args.filename) + " -o " + filenameTex + " --template modifieddefault.beamer " + str(args.paramsPandoc))
	latexmkInvokation = str("latexmk " + filenameTex + " " + str(args.paramsLaTeX))

	print("## Calling pandoc: " + pandocInvokation)
	subprocess.call(pandocInvokation, shell=True)

	print("## Calling latexmk: " + latexmkInvokation)
	subprocess.call(latexmkInvokation, shell=True)

	if not (args.noopen):
		print("## Open " + filenamePdf)
		subprocess.call("open " + filenamePdf, shell=True)

	if (args.clean):
		print("## Cleaning with latexmk")
		subprocess.call("latexmk -c " + filenameTex, shell=True)