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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
#? quick and dirty script to generate a pdf from markdown with pandoc/latex
root=$1
# get extension and root path: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40928328
fname="${root#.}"
fname="${root%"$fname"}${fname%.*}"
ext="${root#"$fname"}"
echo "converting $root to pdf"
if [[ $ext != ".md" ]]; then
echo "error! expected a markdown file"
echo "unrecognized extension: $ext"
return 1
fi
pandoc -V geometry:a5paper -V geometry:margin=.5in --dpi=300 -o ${fname}.pdf $root