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Documentation
Documentation files uses the GitHub markdown syntax. A common file extension for markdown files is .md.
How to produce PDF from markdown files
Pandoc can be used to generated PDF from a markdown file like this
pandoc -f markdown_github GettingStarted.md -o GettingStarted.pdf
See here for information on Pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Internal documentation notes
Produce PDF from markup - 28. oct 2013
The documentation for Git is build using a set of markup files. Below is a set of command history on Ubuntu 13.04 to be able to produce PDF from markup.
NOTE: On Ubuntu, use the following fonts in latex/config.yml Ubuntu for normal text and DejaVu Sans Mono for monospace.
https://github.com/progit/progit/issues/11
16 cd .. 17 git clone https://github.com/progit/progit.git 18 cd progit/ 19 ls 20 ./makepdfs en 21 sudo apt-get install ruby 22 ./makepdfs en 23 sudo apt-get install pandoc 24 ./makepdfs en 25 sudo apt-get install xelatex 26 sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex 27 ./makepdfs en 28 dir 29 sudo apt-get install texlive 30 ./makepdfs en 31 sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra 32 sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base 33 ./makepdfs en 34 sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra 35 ./makepdfs en 36 ls 37 cd latex/ 38 ls 39 kate config.yml 40 sudo apt-get install kate 41 kedit config.yml 42 gedit config.yml 43* 44 cd .. 45 ls 46 ./makepdfs en 47 fc-match helvetica 48 ./makepdfs en 49 fc-list 50 fc-match helvetica 51 fc-match helvetica neue 52 ./makepdfs en 53 fc-list 54 ./makepdfs en 55 ./makepdfs en --debug 56 ./makepdfs en 57 ls 58 ./progit.en.pdf 59 evince 60 history