This is a template repository configured so you start writing your markdown files under /docs and they automatically get converted to your metadata output in /build available as a downloadable build artifact with each commit. By using pandoc, we can focus on writing content:
# My essay
## How great this essay is
This essay is great because:
- point one
- point two
- point three
- point four
- ...
## Bibliography
1. mewithout continually worrying about how it looks. Microsoft Word, and others, are powerful editors but it makes the author continually distracted with appearance when writing. Have you ever added words or an image to a document then had to juggle your page breaks wasting time re-aligning everything? That's exactly what markdown relieves you from allowing you to focus on authoring words.
Any markdown file under the /docs directory that has a metadata block configured will automatically be converted using pandoc and panrun for each commit that gets pushed by the configured GitHub Action .github/workflows/pandoc.yml.
Check out docs/sample.md to see an example metadata block and markdown file.
It's a completely free and open source solution to writing by leveraging the power of git to version control documents you author. Focus on writing your content and let the magic automatically convert it to EPUB, docx, PDF, HTML, a slideshow ...
At the time I created this, you have no limit on the amount of GitHub Action minutes for a public repository. If you favour privacy, then you can make your repository private and be limited to 2000 GitHub Action minutes/month on the free tier. This repository is configured to run the GitHub Action each time you commit to origin/master so more saving = more minutes used.
Alternatively, if you are a power user or just want to convert the files on your machine, then you will want to install pandoc and enable the git hook to convert files on post-commit.
sudo apt update
curl https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/download/2.9.2/pandoc-2.9.2-1-amd64.deb -s -L --output pandoc-2.9.2-1-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i pandoc-2.9.2-1-amd64.deb
sudo apt install -y texlive texlive-xetex
Optionally, enable the git hook:
echo "./build.sh" > .git/hooks/post-commit
chmod +x .git/hooks/post-commit