Use markdown-pdf to convert meeting notes/minutes in Markdown into nicely formatted PDF documents.

notes-to-pdf.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# notes-to-pdf.sh
# @jbuchbinder
#
# Use markdown-pdf to convert meeting notes/minutes in Markdown into nicely formatted
# PDF documents. Formatting:
#
#   # Title
#   ## Subtitle
#
#   ... body goes here ...
#

LEGEND="Bottom Legend for Footer GOES HERE"

##-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

for md in "$*"; do
	pdf="${md//.md}.pdf"
	echo "Processing $md -> $pdf"
	TITLE=$( head -1 "$md" | cut -d'#' -f2 )
	SUBTITLE=$( head -2 "$md" | tail -1 | cut -d'#' -f3 )
	RUNNINGS=$( mktemp /tmp/runnings.XXXXXXXXXX )
	echo "exports.header = { height: '3cm', contents: function(pageNum, numPages) { return \"<h2>${TITLE}<span style='float:right'><small>page \" + pageNum + \" of \" + numPages + \"</small></span></h2><h4 style='margin-top: -.75cm'>$SUBTITLE</h4><hr />\" } };" >> $RUNNINGS
	echo "exports.footer = { height: '2cm', contents: function(pageNum, numPages) { return \"<hr /><h4>{$LEGEND}<span style='float:right'>page \" + pageNum + \" of \" + numPages + \"</span></h4>\" } };" >> $RUNNINGS
	mv "${RUNNINGS}" "${RUNNINGS}.js"
	tempmd=$( mktemp /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX )
	tail -n +3 "$md" > "$tempmd"
	markdown-pdf --runnings-path "${RUNNINGS}.js" --paper-format Letter "$tempmd"
	mv "${tempmd}.pdf" "$pdf"
	rm -f "${RUNNINGS}.js" "$tempmd"
done