Markdown to MS Word using Pandoc, with the existing .docx as template

Makefile

# Markdown to MS Word using Pandoc, with the existing .docx as template

# Author: Chris Zheng
# URL: https://chriszheng.science/2017/11/09/Pandoc-2-and-my-workflow/

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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# 
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MD = $(wildcard *.md)
DOCX = $(MD:.md=.docx)		# $(patsubst %.md,%.docx,$(wildcard *.md))

all: rename $(DOCX)

rename:
	-$(foreach f, $(DOCX), mv "$(f)" "$(f).t";)

%.docx:	%.md rename
	-pandoc $< -f markdown -s --data-dir=. --reference-doc="$@.t" -o "$@" || \
	pandoc $< -f markdown -s -o "$@"
	-[ -f "$@.t" ] && rm "$@.t"

.PHONY: all