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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:27:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Re: New member manual
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Lies, we haven't discussed the colour yet. (Blue please, I would like
it to look like a Haynes manual)

--jonty

----- Original Message -----
> From: "tom" <bollocks...@gmail.com>
> To: london-hack-space@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, 1 November, 2012 11:11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [london-hack-space] Re: New member manual

> Congratulations, we have achieved peak-bikeshed!
> 
> On Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:09:09 AM UTC, Evan Davey wrote:
> 
> Images are handled fine in normal markdown and pandoc normally wraps
> them up nicely in the latex output. Usually, I convert from markdown
> to tex which just outputs the content which I then include in a
> wrapper file that has the main document structure e.g.: class etc.
> Additionally, I normally do stuff with the 'meta' data of my source
> files eg: title, author etc. (which requires using multimarkdown
> rather than pandoc first due to the better meta handling).
> 
> 
> My approach has been to build anything complex into the latex
> templates (manipulating what pandoc outputs) but it is also possible
> to intersperse latex and plain text in the source if necessary - e.g.:
> calling a QR code generation macro
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, 31 October 2012 08:10:47 UTC, Dave (DMI) Ingram wrote:
> 
> On 30/10/12 23:07, Evan Davey wrote:
> > I'd recommend http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ . That way the text
> > can be kept in plain text as Markdown which is much friendly to edit
> > than latex directly. I use this framework for creating all my
> > business presentations, reports and I'm now working on a brochure
> > (each have custom latex templates). The other advantage is that you
> > can easily convert to other formats eg. HTML
> I'll have to look into how much control Pandoc gives you over the
> formatting, as I will want more than just basic text (e.g. vector
> images, in-LaTeX QR code generation, image floats, etc). But it might
> be an interesting start.
> 
> 
> D