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Subject:Re: Markdown to PDF From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com>, tech2wr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:43:06 -0800
You could install Confluence on your local system.
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Ryan Young <ryangyoung -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At my new job, what documentation there is is in Markdown. The engineers
> set up a script using pandoc to create some functional PDF output. The
> problem is that pandoc requires LaTex to produce the PDF, which doesn't
> give me very much control of things like the location of images in the
> document (or the ability to create links).
>
> I've played around with Atom and SublimeText, but neither gives me all that
> much more control over the PDF output. I've also suggested the company
> start using Confluence, which would solve the problem, but it seems like
> that will take a bit of planning.
>
> Any suggestions?
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