Nice PDFs from Markdown

chapter_break.tex

\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\clearpage}

inline_code.tex

\usepackage{fancyvrb,newverbs,xcolor}

\definecolor{Light}{HTML}{F4F4F4}

\let\oldtexttt\texttt
\renewcommand{\texttt}[1]{
  \colorbox{Light}{\oldtexttt{#1}}
}

main_command.sh

pandoc input.md \
  -f gfm \
  --include-in-header chapter_break.tex \
  --include-in-header inline_code.tex \
  --highlight-style pygments.theme \
  -V linkcolor:blue \
  -V geometry:a4paper \
  -V geometry:margin=2cm \
  -V mainfont="DejaVu Serif" \
  -V monofont="DejaVu Sans Mono" \
  --pdf-engine=xelatex \
  -V fontsize=12pt \
  -o output.pdf

pygments.theme

{
    "text-color": null,
    "background-color": "#f8f8f8",
    "line-number-color": "#aaaaaa",
    "line-number-background-color": null,
    "text-styles": {
        "Other": {
            "text-color": "#007020",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Attribute": {
            "text-color": "#7d9029",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "SpecialString": {
            "text-color": "#bb6688",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Annotation": {
            "text-color": "#60a0b0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": true,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Function": {
            "text-color": "#06287e",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "String": {
            "text-color": "#4070a0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "ControlFlow": {
            "text-color": "#007020",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Operator": {
            "text-color": "#666666",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Error": {
            "text-color": "#ff0000",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "BaseN": {
            "text-color": "#40a070",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Alert": {
            "text-color": "#ff0000",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Variable": {
            "text-color": "#19177c",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "BuiltIn": {
            "text-color": null,
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Extension": {
            "text-color": null,
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Preprocessor": {
            "text-color": "#bc7a00",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Information": {
            "text-color": "#60a0b0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": true,
            "underline": false
        },
        "VerbatimString": {
            "text-color": "#4070a0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Warning": {
            "text-color": "#60a0b0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": true,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Documentation": {
            "text-color": "#ba2121",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": true,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Import": {
            "text-color": null,
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Char": {
            "text-color": "#4070a0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "DataType": {
            "text-color": "#902000",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Float": {
            "text-color": "#40a070",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Comment": {
            "text-color": "#9c9c9c",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "CommentVar": {
            "text-color": "#60a0b0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": true,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Constant": {
            "text-color": "#880000",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "SpecialChar": {
            "text-color": "#4070a0",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "DecVal": {
            "text-color": "#40a070",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": false,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        },
        "Keyword": {
            "text-color": "#007020",
            "background-color": null,
            "bold": true,
            "italic": false,
            "underline": false
        }
    }
}

Credit - https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/