mkdoc

Utility to use with pandoc to generate Beamer Presentations, LaTeX Files, among others using markdown to write you files. It comes with a web editor to help you edit your files. The web editor use nodejs.

Instalation

Install pandoc and latex-beamer first.

sudo apt-get install pandoc latex-beamer python python-jinja2 python-markdown

Maybe you will need other packages for especific LaTeX code, like texlive-latex-extra.

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Install node:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo npm install -g nodemon

Then download, extract the project, rename to mkdoc and:

sudo mv mkdoc /usr/local
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mkdoc/mkdoc /usr/local/bin
cd /usr/local/mkdoc
npm install
cd /usr/local/mkdoc/editor
npm install

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

Complete Version with nodejs (Ubuntu 12.04 32-bits)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8ltpol0cc3rwis/mkdoc-all.deb

Options

USAGE
    mkdoc [options] [command]

COMMANDS
    init - start a project in an empty directory
        options: beamer|latex|io-slides
        default: beamer

    editor - open a web editor (needs nodejs)

    edit [file] - open file to edit

    template - open template file to edit instead

    view - generate file and open pdf

    docs - show the documentation of mkdoc in the browser

    cleanup - remove log and aux files

OPTIONS
    -h, --help - show this help
    -V, --version  show version