Various scripts for working with markdown chapters

README.md

These are a few scripts I've used to help me out while writing a novel where each chapter is a markdown file. A repo might have a format like this:

book/
├── part-1
│   ├── chapter-01.md
│   ├── chapter-02.md
│   ├── chapter-03.md
│   ├── chapter-04.md
│   ├── chapter-05.md
│   └── chapter-06.md
└── part-2
    ├── chapter-07.md
    ├── chapter-08.md
    └── chapter-09.md

More details in this blog post.

generate_epub.sh

#!/bin/bash

pandoc -H options.sty \                                 # add a style file to pandoc to format how our pdf looks
--toc \                                                 # add table of contents
--metadata title="My Shiny New Book And Me" \           # metadata for epub title
--metadata creator="Chip Skylark" \                     # metadata for author name
`find ../book-1 -type f -name 'chapter*.md' | sort` \   # find all markdown chapter files and sort them
-o ../book-1/book1.epub                                 # output as an epub file

generate_pdf.sh

#!/bin/bash

pandoc -H options.sty \                           # add a style file to pandoc to format how our pdf looks
--toc \                                           # tell pandoc to also generate a table of contents
`find book -type f -name 'chapter*.md' | sort` \  # find all markdown chapter files and sort them
-o book/book.pdf                                  # output as a pdf

options.sty

\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing                                 # 1.5 spacing
\usepackage[vmargin=1in,hmargin=1in]{geometry}  # margin size
\setlength{\parindent}{2em}                     # size of paragraph indent
\usepackage{indentfirst}                        # indent the first paragraph of every section
\usepackage{palatino}                           # use the Palatino font

word_count.sh

#!/bin/bash

# read in a file path where markdown files are
FPATH=$1

# if no path given, use the current directory
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    FPATH='.'
fi

# find all markdown files, sort them, and get the word count of each one
find "$FPATH" -type f -name 'chapter*.md' | sort | xargs wc -w