Makefile that uses Pandoc to generate HTML, PDF, DOCX, etc. from Markdown source files

Makefile

# Makefile
# 
# Converts Markdown to other formats (HTML, PDF, DOCX, RTF, ODT, EPUB) using Pandoc
# <http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/>
#
# Run "make" (or "make all") to convert to all other formats
#
# Run "make clean" to delete converted files

# Convert all files in this directory that have a .md suffix
SOURCE_DOCS := $(wildcard *.md)

EXPORTED_DOCS=\
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.html) \
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.pdf) \
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.docx) \
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.rtf) \
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.odt) \
 $(SOURCE_DOCS:.md=.epub)

RM=/bin/rm

PANDOC=/usr/local/bin/pandoc

PANDOC_OPTIONS=--smart --standalone

PANDOC_HTML_OPTIONS=--to html5
PANDOC_PDF_OPTIONS=
PANDOC_DOCX_OPTIONS=
PANDOC_RTF_OPTIONS=
PANDOC_ODT_OPTIONS=
PANDOC_EPUB_OPTIONS=--to epub3


# Pattern-matching Rules

%.html : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_HTML_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<

%.pdf : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_PDF_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<
	
%.docx : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_DOCX_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<

%.rtf : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_RTF_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<

%.odt : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_ODT_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<

%.epub : %.md
	$(PANDOC) $(PANDOC_OPTIONS) $(PANDOC_EPUB_OPTIONS) -o $@ $<


# Targets and dependencies

.PHONY: all clean

all : $(EXPORTED_DOCS)

clean:
	- $(RM) $(EXPORTED_DOCS)

Really like this makefile and would like to use it. What license is it under?

I also really like this! Is this under an open source license?

hmm?

Thanks, i have been using this for some time now, works really nice! In the meantime I was wondering if somebody could help out to make the makefile convert only a specific '.md'-file in a folder by typing something like make name-of-the-article. Is this possible?

I am sure that you, @floriandierickx, have already figured this out in the mean time, but for others with the same request:

make understands the %.pdf : %.md as a target itself ("generate whatever.pdf from whatever.md") , so if you have foo.md and want foo.pdf, all you'd have to type is make foo.pdf and make will understand what to do (check if the PDF is fresh enough, and if not, generate it).

It just won't show up in your tab completions in your shell, since whoever made the bash autocompletions didn't anticipate this need.

Hi, sorry for a noob question. Where do I store this makefile so it is available in any directories? In my root directory? Or does it have to be in the same folder that I am making the file?

Sorry that I never noticed this comments before.

Re: Licensing: Consider it public-domain

Re: File location: Typically people put the makefile in the directory where you run make from. But you could do something like make -f ~/util/pandoc/Makefile