Toolkit for compiling markdown files to nicely formatted pdfs with pandoc

head.tex

\usepackage{fancyvrb,newverbs,xcolor}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=1.5cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}

\definecolor{bgcolor}{gray}{0.95}
\let\oldtexttt\texttt

\renewcommand{\texttt}[1]{
\colorbox{bgcolor}{\small\oldtexttt{#1}}
}

\hypersetup{
    bookmarksopen=true,
    linkcolor=blue,
    filecolor=magenta,
    urlcolor=RoyalBlue,
}

Makefile

MD_FILES := $(wildcard *.md)
PDF_TARGETS = $(MD_FILES:.md=.pdf)

.PHONY: all
all: $(PDF_TARGETS)

%.pdf : %.md
	pandoc -s $< -o $@   -t latex  --highlight-style=tango  -H head.tex