After a system crash, I took the opportunity to update my computer and David’s IRE. I’m now running Ubuntu Sway Remix, and it’s great to have a distro that works right out of the box. In this post, that I will be editing in the next few weeks, I will keep a record of improvements, fixes and updates. The mayor upgrade (or rather simplification), is the use of groff instead of LaTeX, but tht might require its own post.

Zathura & Pandoc

I finally figured out how to pipe pandoc output to zathura, the most beutiful PDF viewer. The command is:

pandoc ~/Documents/file.md --pdf-engine=pdfroff -t pdf -o - | zathura - --fork

This command already uses groff (or rather the wrapper pdfgroff), and while I didn’t specified it, it seems to naturaly use the ms package. Just for the record, the following command produces a PDF file using pdfroff using the ms package, which was designed for writing scientific papers and is thus perfect for my needs.

pandoc --citeproc --csl=/home/dhcolmenares/Documents/imprenta/chicago-note-bibliography.csl.xml  ~/Documents/test.md -t ms -o ~/Desktop/test.pdf

Pandoc has no trouble converting my bib bibliography and even using a custom csl bibligraphic style to groff.