diix

on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
	if this_text contains the search_string then
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
		set the item_list to every text item of this_text
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
		set this_text to the item_list as string
		set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	end if
	return this_text
end replace_chars

Beyamor

import os, sys

markdown_name = sys.argv[1]
name = markdown_name.split(".")[0]
latex_name = name + ".tex"

os.system("pandoc -f markdown -t latex %s -o %s" % (markdown_name, latex_name))

with open(latex_name, "r") as latex_file:
        latex_content = latex_file.read()