Pandoc Book Maker Template

Template for creating epub books from markdown using pandoc.

Instructions

Install Pandoc

Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives

• With package: pandoc-1.19.2.1-1-amd64.deb

macOS

• With brew:

brew install pandoc

• With package: pandoc-1.19.2.1-osx.pkg

Windows

• With MSI: pandoc-1.19.2.1-windows.msi

Create Book

1. Change to this directory.
2. In static/ directory, replace contents of metadata.yml, and cover.jpg with your own content.
3. In chapters/ directory, add you content. Use file name to order the files as shown in the example.
4. Create your book with the following syntax below

EPUB

pandoc -S --epub-embed-font='fonts/*.ttf' -o target/book.epub static/metadata.yml chapters/*.md

Your book will be exported astarget/book.epub.

PDF

pandoc -S -o target/book.pdf static/metadata.yml chapters/*.md

Your book will be exported astarget/book.pdf.