Playing With AdmonitionsI’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous posts.
TypstThree years ago I wrote about a workflow to generate PDF files out of my Markdown content, both on this website and on De Programmatica Ipsum. That first setup involved Pandoc and TeX, and it was a solution that worked well, but was unfortunately slow as hell, particularly given the amount of articles I have in both sites. A faster solution was badly needed.
Pandoc Filters in LuaYou might remember that I’m using Pandoc to convert entries of this blog into PDF files. While doing that, I started using Lua filters for Pandoc to drive and customize the conversion process. This article explains some of those filters.
Exporting Hugo to PDFHugo is fantastic but it misses one key functionality: the generation of PDF files. This article provides a possible solution for it using Podman, Pandoc, and a custom tool built in Rust.
Sustainable Ebook StrategyI love reading, and I love books; and in the 21st century, reading books means, to a large degree, electronic books. The advantages are obvious; a small ebook reader is able to hold hundreds or thousands of volumes that would otherwise be impossible to carry around. You can instantly search for text, highlight and bookmark quotes, and a lot more.
Markdown FTWMarkdown is my new favorite tool. It all started while looking for alternatives to LaTeX to write documents and booklets, because since the release of the iPad last year, I wanted to publish in PDF and in EPUB format at the same time, and LaTeX does not offer that option off the box.