# PDF building HOWTO

Could you please share with me how you build PDF version of your book
from Markdown sources? I hope it's not secret :) In my opinion
it's very valuable information not only for me, but also for many
ikiwiki users. --Pawel

> I will need to document this when I have time, but here is a brief outline:
>
> - custom Markdown that provides \[\[WikiLinks\]\] support and my custom code blocks \"\"
>
> - custom HTML::Latex perl module that provides handler for custom code blocks -- it used a "lyxcode" environment
>  which borrowed from LyX and put into my TeX template
>
> - custom html2latex.conf configuration to make sure that the HTML converts to the correct TeX
>
> - a bunch of sed magic to clean out junk and to convert some stuff (in the HTML and TeX).
>
> - so basically I use custom Markdown to convert the original content to HTML, then
>  convert that using html2latex to TeX (so nothing related to ikiwiki other than my two custom Markdown extensions).

>> Thank you very much for your brief! It's sounds a bit complex for me...
>> I hope you find some free time soon ;)

> Note: there are some tools to convert Markdown (derivatives) direct to PDF and for direct to TeX. But I haven't tried them (yet).
>
> --reed

>> Really? I've never heard about them. So, thanks a lot for the hint! I hope the tools
>> work good and there are easier in usage :)
>>
>> --Pawel
