Better Documents System

[alilleybrinker]

Hey Krishna, you may want to look into Pandoc to help you out.

With Pandoc you can write in something like Markdown (which I recommend), turn it into TeX (because TeX is beautiful) and turn the TeX into a PDF.

Here is a UNIX bash function to do just that:

function md_to_pdf() {
  pandoc -s "$@".md -o "$@".tex
  pandoc -s "$@".tex -o "$@".pdf
  rm "$@".tex
}

To use the function, add it to your .bash_profile (found at ~/.bash_profile), save the changes, and then restart your terminal.

The advantages of this setup are:

• The ease of writing Markdown.
• The beauty of TeX.
• The cross-platform simplicity of PDFs.

[kcparashar]

Nice, this looks fantastic. I will look into it! Thanks! Also I am going back down to SoCal in the next week or so. We should meet up!

[kcparashar]

I need to really do this. Pages is just not a good file format.