Reports templating system

This is the templating system I use to generate my reports.

It's a (heavy) work in progress as I am still learning latex.

it consists of a bash script that I can use to create a new markdown file for my reports and then I can use the same script to run pandoc on the markdown and output a pdf.

Requirements

latex and pandoc installed. Texlive is part of slackware and the extras and pandoc packages can be obtained from slackbuilds.org.

On my slackware64-current I have:

texlive-2024.240409-x86_64-4
texlive-extra-2024.240409-x86_64-1_SBo
pandoc-bin-3.8-x86_64-1_SBo

Install

this is the directory structure I use:

~/bin
makereport (the bash script)
~/.local/share/pandoc/templates
reports.latex (the latex template)
reports.theme (the color theme for the code highlighting)
~/Documents/reports/template/
template.md (the empty markdown template)
~/Pictures
signature.png (optional signature image)

How to

makereport -t > "new report.md"

This will generate the markdown with the template.

makereport -o "new report.pdf" "new report.md"

This command will generate the pdf document.

Inspiration

This script is based on the reports script by Valerio Casalino aka 5amu on github. Grazie mille Valerio 🫶🏻

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