Extremely Simple Pandoc Memo

extremely-simple-pandoc-memo.md

Instructions

1. Put makememo on path somewhere
2. Make sure pandoc-crossref and pandoc-citeproc are somewhere on your path
3. Set the location of your bibliography file in metadata of memo-template.md
4. Set the location of your CSL file in metadata of memo-template.md
   • IEEE CSL file can be found here: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/ieee.csl
5. Create a markdown file such as memo-example.md
   • The metadata fields (title, subtitle, author, date) are optional
   • Other metadata fields set here will not be used
6. Call the bash script: make-memo memo-example.md
7. Open memo-example.pdf after it has been created :crystal-ball:

install

#!/bin/bash

ln -sf $PWD/makememo ~/bin
ln -sf $PWD/memo-template.md ~/.pandoc/templates

makememo

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "-h" ]; then
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-h] [file.md] -- program to create PDF version of memo using simple template
  
where:
    -h  show this help text"
  exit 0
else
  fname=$1
  name=$(echo $fname | cut -d'.' -f 1)
  echo `pandoc $fname --template=memo-template.md -t markdown | pandoc --pdf-engine=xelatex --filter=pandoc-crossref --filter=pandoc-citeproc -o $name.pdf`
  exit 0
fi

memo-example.md

title	subtitle	footer
A test	First of its Kind	Nice footer

Is this an easy to write template?

Reference to [@vonmoll2014recent] and see [@eq:label], below.

$$ math $$ {#eq:label}

References

memo-example.pdf

memo-template.md

Error in user YAML: (<unknown>): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 17 column 1

---
documentclass: article
fontsize: 11pt
bibliography: '/home/alex/library.bib'
csl: '/home/alex/.csl/ieee.csl'
biblatexoptions: 
 - sorting=none
 - backend=biber
header-includes:
 - \usepackage{fullpage}
 - \usepackage{hyperref}
 - \linespread{1.05}
 - \setmainfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}
 - \setsansfont{TeX Gyre Heros}
 - \setmathfont{TeX Gyre Pagella Math}
 - \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
 - \setlength{\parskip}{.7em}
$if(footer)$
 - \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 - \pagestyle{fancy}
 - \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
 - \fancyhead{}
 - \fancyfoot[RO,RE]{$footer$}
 - \fancyfoot[CO,CE]{\thepage}
$endif$
$for(header-includes)$
 - $header-includes$
$endfor$
link-citations: true
colorlinks: true
---

\noindent \large\textbf{$title$}\hfill\textbf{$if(author)$$author$$else$Alexander Von Moll$endif$}\newline \noindent \normalsize $if(subtitle)$$subtitle$$endif$\hfill$if(date)$ $date$$else$\today$endif$

$body$