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Suggestion: one-line pip install #18

Closed BruceEckel closed 9 years ago

BruceEckel commented 9 years ago

You can use pip to install directly from github

pip install git+https://github.com/msprev/panzer
msprev commented 9 years ago

Great, thank you! I didn't know that pip could do this. I'll update the documentation.

One question: shouldn't it be pip3 as panzer requires Python 3?

pip3 install git+https://github.com/msprev/panzer
BruceEckel commented 9 years ago

I only recently discovered it myself, and yes, it's a sweet feature.

Yes, pip3 makes sense if it's Python3 only. (I switched over to exclusively Python 3 so I wasn't thinking about that).

PS: Just installed panzer today and I have high hopes, after struggling with pandoc templates and latex.

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mark Sprevak notifications@github.com wrote:

Great, thank you! I didn't know that pip could do this. I'll update the documentation.

One question: shouldn't it be pip3 as panzer requires Python 3?

pip3 install git+https://github.com/msprev/panzer

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/msprev/panzer/issues/18#issuecomment-136845259.

msprev commented 9 years ago

Thanks! I'm glad that you like it! Let me know if you have any problems. You might want to take a look at my dot-panzer repository as a starting point for hacking.

BruceEckel commented 9 years ago

Perhaps you can give me some advice. I'm creating a programming book from pandoc-Markdown, distributing it as epub, mobi, and PDF. The PDF version is not meant to be printed, so I want to use a single-sided format (like an article), so it won't change from one page to the next. I'd like to use a san-serif font for the headlines, and make them larger than usual (ideally set them using a font size rather than \Huge). In addition, for the epub and mobi I've got dingbats (images) next to the chapter titles, and also the first-level subheads -- I don't know if it's possible to do that with Latx.

I'd like to have headers and footers with separator lines, header/footer text in (possibly smaller) san serif, and parts of the header/footer should indicate the chapter and subsection.

Can you recommend something that gets me fairly close to that? I would appreciate it ... I've been thrashing around with the PDF generation for days now.

(If it would help, I can give you access to the Bitbucket repository)

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Mark Sprevak notifications@github.com wrote:

Closed #18 https://github.com/msprev/panzer/issues/18 via 7bb4a0b https://github.com/msprev/panzer/commit/7bb4a0bb3d347766f3a2143f84c73b7ae2e7fd55 .

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/msprev/panzer/issues/18#event-398785864.

msprev commented 9 years ago

I'm not a LaTeX hacker, so can't advise on how to create this. But I'd suggest the following:

  1. Get your layout right in LaTeX before messing around with pandoc. Once you have an example LaTeX document looking the way you like, it is easy to transform this into a pandoc template and then feed markdown through it.
  2. Have a look at existing classes in LaTeX like memoir or koma-script. Folks have done a lot of work to develop good book layouts that you can build on.

Hope that this helps!