How to Make Zines with LaTeX

This is a demo of how to make a zine using Pandoc to convert marktown to LaTeX. It applies typesetting from a custom document class (zine.cls).

To generate the zine, 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