How to Make Zines with LaTeX

This is a demo of how to make a zine using Pandoc to convert marktown to LaTeX. To learn more about what it does and how it works, build the zine! (Or read the zine source (doc.md)

To build the zine: Run ./build.sh

On Windows: Uninstall Windows. Install Linux. Run ./build.sh

Note: you will have to install some version of tex-live. If space is not an issue you should install the full version. However I was able to get away with installing the barebones version and a few collections (namely, latex, latexextra, latexrecommended, pictures, fontsextra, fontsrecommended) and have had no issues.

website

It also generates a standalone website. To view the website:

./html-build.sh
cd public
python3 -m http.server

some notes on HTML

Usually I like to convert Pandoc documents as fragments and add my own document structure, to cut down on the messy markup Pandoc adds. For HTML in particular I like to see how little I can get away with by using classless CSS for the style. However in this case I combined the two because Pandoc applies classes to each code token (i.e., it applies syntax highlighting) and there's no way to do this without Pandoc's preamble.

• TODO figure out how to extract the syntax highlighting from Pandoc's HTML template
• TODO figure out how to prevent image from floating