Hi Gildas,

On 24 Dec 2014, at 8:54 , Gildas Hamel gweltaz@ucsc.edu wrote:

I made a simple shell script and a similar system service via automator to turn .txt files into .pdf via xelatex. They work well but require a couple steps outside TextMate. It would be a great convenience to have a command in the markdown bundle that would add this capacity. I tried it but failed even when giving full path to pandoc and pandoc-citeproc which are in /usr/local/bin, or to xelatex. I have little knowledge in these matters and would appreciate any help.

Here is my little shell script:

#!/bin/sh pandoc -S --filter pandoc-citeproc --latex-engine=xelatex "${1}" -o "${1}".pdf

My similar automator service:

PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:$PATH for file in "$@" do output=${file%%.*}.pdf pandoc -S --filter pandoc-citeproc --latex-engine=xelatex "$file" -o "$output" done

The metadata at the head of my .md or .txt files give extra info, such as title, font, bibliography, as in:

---

title: My title author: My Name date: \today mainfont: Hoefler Text bibliography: /Users/me/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib/data.bib

---

Any pointers towards making a markdown bundle command that accomplishes what the scripts above do would be great. —Gildas

Hi Gildas,

you could for example create a command containing the following code:

—

#!/bin/bash

PDF_PATH=`echo "${TM_FILEPATH}" | sed -E 's/.[^/]+$/.pdf/'` PDF_NAME=`basename "${PDF_PATH}"` pandoc -S --latex-engine=xelatex "${TM_FILEPATH}" -o "${PDF_PATH}" echo "PDF saved to ${PDF_NAME}"

—

using the options:

Name: Generate PDF Scope Selector: text.html.markdown Key Equivalent: ⌥⌘ Save: Current Document Input: Nothing Output: Show in Tool Tip Format: Text Caret Placement: After Output

I attached a bundle that should contain the command described above. Just double click it to install the bundle. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Kind regards, René