md2notes

md2notes is a rude little python program that converts notes with latex taken in markdown into html using strapdown.js and MathJax.

Syntax:

• Markdown syntax is used for headings, tables, links, images, etc.
• Math is delimited by \( and \) (inline) and \[ and \] and is rendered with MathJax.
• Nested latex environments such as \begin{align}...\end{align} are supported.
• Output from the linux date command is formatted by the parser by including a line with #(your_date_here).

Terminal Commands:

• mdgen LOG produces an html file LOG.html.
  • -r option refreshes all visible tabs of Chrome after compiling .html file.
  • -o option opens a new tab in Chrome to display .html file.
• mddir name_to_search your_directory searches for markdown files in the specified directory and runs mdgen on them
  • Example: mddir LOG finds all files called LOG in the current directory (plus subdirectories) and generates an html file LOG.html
• indexgen filename_to_index index_filename produces a html file INDEX.html which has a directory structure and has links to all LOG files.

Sublime Compiler:

• Instructions to compile and view .html directly from Sublime

Known issues

• mdgen on OSX: The -r and -o options use the linux bash command google-chrome to inteface with chrome. There isn't an equivalent command on OSX, so I recommend adding a file called google-chrome to a local /bin on your path:

#!/bin/bash

# Call chrome from command line
    site=""
    if [[ -f "$(pwd)/$1" ]]; then
        site="file://$(pwd)/$1"
    elif [[ "$1" == '/'* ]]; then
        site="file://$1"
    elif [[ "$1" =~ "^http" ]]; then
        site="$1"
    else
        site="http://$1"
    fi

    /usr/bin/open -a "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" "$site"