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# Eisvogel
[![Download the preview PDF](https://img.shields.io/badge/download-example_PDF-green.svg)](example/example.pdf)
A clean **pandoc LaTeX template** to convert your markdown files to PDF or LaTeX. It is designed for lecture notes and exercises with a focus on computer science.
## Preview
[![A preview of a PDF rendered with the Eisvogel template.](example/example.png)](example/example.pdf)
## Installation
1. Install pandoc from <http://pandoc.org/>. You also need to install [LaTeX](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installation#Distributions).
2. Move the template `eisvogel.latex` to your pandoc templates folder. The location of the templates folder depends on your operating system:
- Unix, Linux, macOS: `~/.pandoc/templates/`
- Windows XP: `C:\Documents And Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\pandoc`
- Windows Vista or later: `C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\pandoc`
If there are no folders called `templates` or `pandoc` you need to create them and put the template `eisvogel.latex` inside.
## Usage
1. Open the terminal and navigate to the folder where your markdown file is located.
2. Execute the following command
```bash
pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --from markdown --template eisvogel --listings --latexmathml
```
where `example.md` is the markdown file you want to convert to PDF.
In order to have nice headers and footers you need to supply metadata to your document. You can do that with a [YAML metadata block](http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block) at the top of your markdown document (see the [example markdown file](example/example.md)). Your markdown document may look like the following:
```markdown
---
title: "The Document Title"
author: [Example Author, Another Author]
date: 2017-02-20
tags: [Markdown, Example]
...
Here is the actual document text...
```