Pandoc: Markdown to PDF

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Pandoc: Markdown to PDF

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The command is this:

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pandoc -so output.pdf input.md
Where you replace "output.pdf" and "input.md" with your destination and source file respectively.

In order to generate PDF documents from Markdown (.md) files, you need the following packages installed:
(This list should work for Debian-based GNU/Linux systems. Tested on Xubuntu 16.04.3)

First of all the conversion tool "Pandoc":

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pandoc
Pandoc requires "pdflatex" to generate PDFs. You need at least these packages to satifsy prerequisites:

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texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended
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