Typeset

Typeset - Convert markdown to print ready PDFs

Example

typeset -i C:\chatper-1.md C:\chapter-2.md -o C:\myBook.pdf

How to use

• Checkout this repo
• Run ./build/Build-TypesetCommandline.ps1
• cd into output/typeset-cli-windows to run

You can then copy typeset-cli-windows to a convenient place on your machine, then set PATH to point to it.

Only supports Windows at the moment.

Docker

See DockerHub.

Basic usage

docker pull mikielagutu/typesetter:latest
docker run --rm mikielagutu/typesetter:latest

You'll need to mount a volume to allow Docker to access files on your machine.

For example:

• Create a folder called markdown in the current directory
• Put your .md files in there
• Use the $pwd environment variable to grab the current directory

docker run -v $pwd/markdown:/app/markdown --rm mikielagutu/typeset -i markdown/book.md -o markdown/book.pdf

Documentation

  --fontFamily            (Default: Arial) Font family to use for all text in the document

  --pageSize              (Default: A4) Page size of the document

  --pageMargin            (Default: 70pt 60pt 70pt) Margin around the text

  --lineHeight            (Default: 200%) Height of each line of text

  --fontSize              (Default: 14pt) Font size for main text of document

  -i, --inputFilePaths    Required. Markdown files to create into a document

  -o, --outputFilepath    Required. Where to output the document PDF

  --title                 (Default: ) Title of the document

  --printPageNumbers      (Default: false) Whether to print page numbers

  --printPageMarginals    (Default: false) Whether to print page marginals

  --help                  Display this help screen.

  --version               Display version information.