Overview

Converting markdown to pdf’s on macOS Big Sur with pandoc installed from brew.

Details

Install pandoc with brew:

brew install pandoc

Install basictex with brew:

brew install --cask basictex

Symlink the pdflatex binary into /usr/local/bin:

jemurray@jasons-mbp posts % sudo ln -s /Library/Tex/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/x86_64/pdflatex /usr/local/bin

Example conversion with images:

cat kc3-2020-obj1.md kc3-2020-obj2.md 
  \ | sed 's/(\/images\//(/g' 
  \ | pandoc -f markdown 
  \ --resource-path=../../static/images/ 
  \ -t pdf 
  \ -o ~/kc3-2020-writeup.pdf