So I’m trying to move my list of spellcasters into a repository where I can start working on a PDF of sorts. I already knew that I didn’t want to try Pandoc. So here we are.
@mathieu suggested WeasyPrint. It converts HTML to PDF. It’s written in Python and I prefer that to the node module markdown-pdf. When I tried markdown-pdf, I had no access to the intermediary HTML and thus I didn’t know where to start when I tried writing a CSS for it.
So now I’m using WeasyPrint and that means I need a Markdown to HTML processor. Python already comes with Markdown and I just used it, yesterday. Perfect!
And now in my Makefile:
%.pdf: %.html
weasyprint {body}lt; $@
%.html: %.md
python3 -m markdown --extension=markdown.extensions.tables --file=$@ {body}lt;
I haven’t looked at fiddling with the CSS, though. I’m just happy that I access to the intermediary HTML file.
#Markdown
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PDF files:
https://alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/spellcasters/
– Alex Schroeder 2018-06-14 13:15 UTC
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These days it’s a bit more involved. This is from the Just Halberds Makefile. What it does is this:
1. take `Just-Halberds.md` and turn it into `Just-Halberds.html.tmp` using Python’s markdown module
2. concatenate `Just-Halberds-prefix`, `Just-Halberds.html.tmp`, and `suffix` into `Just-Halberds.html`
3. take `Just-Halberds.html` and `Just-Halberds.css` and turn it into `Just-Halberds.pdf`
The CSS is mentioned in the prefix, where we add the beginning of the HTML file:
<!doctype html>
<html lang=en>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="Just-Halberds.css"/>
</head>
<body>
The suffix simply closes those tags again:
</body> </html>
And this is the Makefile:
all: Just-Halberds.pdf
clean:
rm -f *.html *.pdf
upload: Just-Halberds.pdf
rsync -ai $^ sibirocobombus:alexschroeder.ch/pdfs/
%.pdf: %.html %.css
weasyprint {body}lt; $@
%.html: %-prefix %.html.tmp suffix
cat $^ > $@
%.html.tmp: %.md
python3 -m markdown \
--extension=markdown.extensions.tables \
--extension markdown.extensions.smarty \
--extension markdown.extensions.attr_list \
--file=$@ {body}lt;
– Alex Schroeder 2020-04-15 06:54 UTC