Convert a MultimarkDown file into a .tex using MMD3, and compile into a PDF using XeLaTeX, Biber and Biblatex

mmd3_proc.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
mmd3_proc.py

Convert a MultiMarkdown file into a latex file using MMD3,
and process it using XeLaTeX, Biber and Makeglossaries

Takes a single argument: the input file to process
Outputs a PDF with the same basename as as the input file to cwd

Created by Stephan Hügel on 2011-04-11
"""

import sys
import os
import subprocess
import shutil
import tempfile
import glob
# import traceback

def main():
    """
    main function
    """

    def copy_files(orig, extn, dest):
        """
        Copy files with specified extension from orig to specified destination

        copy_file(original dir, '*.ext', destination)
        """
        return [shutil.copy2(f, dest) for
                f in glob.iglob(os.path.join(orig, extn)) if os.path.isfile(f)]

    infile = sys.argv[1]
    basename, _ = os.path.splitext(infile)
    cwd = os.getcwd()
    tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp()
    # figure out what files we need to copy to our temp dir
    try:
        copy_files(cwd, '*.bib', tmp)
        copy_files(cwd, '*.jpg', tmp)
        copy_files(cwd, '*.png', tmp)
    except IOError:
        print '***** Could not copy files to temp dir %s *****' % tmp
        shutil.rmtree(tmp)
        raise
    try:
        subprocess.check_call(['multimarkdown', '-t', 'latex', infile,
        '-o', os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.tex')])

        subprocess.check_call(['xelatex',
        '-output-directory', tmp, '-interaction', 'batchmode',
        os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.tex')])

        subprocess.check_call(['biber', '-q',
        os.path.join(tmp, basename)])

        subprocess.check_call(['makeindex', '-q',
        '-s', os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.ist'),
        '-t', os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.glg'),
        '-o', os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.gls'),
        os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.glo')])

        subprocess.check_call(['xelatex',
        '-output-directory', tmp, '-interaction', 'batchmode',
        os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.tex')])

        subprocess.check_call(['xelatex',
        '-output-directory', tmp, '-interaction', 'batchmode',
        os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.tex')])
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        print '***** Error, check log file(s) in %s *****' % cwd
        try:
            copy_files(tmp, '*.log', cwd)
        except IOError:
            print '***** Could not copy log file(s) back to %s *****' % cwd
        shutil.rmtree(tmp)
        raise

    # if all goes well, copy basename.pdf back to cwd and clean up temp dir
    try:
        copy_files(tmp, '*.pdf', cwd)
        print "<br /><br />***** Wrote %s.pdf to %s *****" % (basename, cwd)
    except IOError:
        print "<br /><br />Could not copy %s.pdf to %s" % (basename, cwd)
        subprocess.Popen(['open', os.path.join(tmp, basename + '.pdf')])
        raise
    finally:
        shutil.rmtree(tmp)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        main()
    except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
        # actually raise these, for a clean exit
        raise
    except Exception, error:
        # all other exceptions: display the error
        print error
        # print "Stack trace:\n", traceback.print_exc(file = sys.stdout)
    else:
        pass
    finally:
        # exit cleanly once we've done everything else
        sys.exit(0)