README

Introduction

This code contains functions that allow you to convert markdown files to HTML, and optionally convert them to MP3 audio files using Google's Text-to-Speech API. It also includes a function that evaluates and replaces any python code blocks in the markdown files. It is heavily inspired by Edward Tufte's work and tufte-css. It is primarily designed for handouts and notes.

Dependencies

The following python modules:

• google-cloud-texttospeech
• plotly

The following system packages:

• pandoc
• python
• nodejs
• pandoc-sidenote

How to Use

1. Put all the markdown files you want to convert in the "../md" folder.
2. Optionally, put any static files you want to include in the "../static" folder.
3. Run the "main()" function to convert the markdown files to HTML and optionally to MP3 audio files. You can turn off the aud:w:io conversion by passing the "-S" or "--no-sound" argument when running the script.
4. The converted files will be saved in the "../out" folder.
5. cd into the out folder and run python -m http.server to open a http server that you can use to view the output. Alternatively you can host it on an actual web server, to do that just copy the whole of the out folder to wherever you need for your web server.

Example File

---
title: Hello 🌍!
author: Max Friedrich
date: 3/4/23
---


Here is a mermaid diagram.[^1]

[^1]:
```mermaid
graph LR
A[Hard edge] -->B(Round edge)
    B --> C{Decision}
    C -->|One| D[Result one]
    C -->|Two| E[Result two]
```

Here is some inline code:

```language-python
print("Hello World")
for i in range(10):
  print(i)
```
Here is some simple maths:

$$y=5$$
$$x = 5$$
$$z = x+y$$



```py
from graph import Chart
spark={"y":[0.17, 0.16, 0.11, 0.05, 0.02, 0.02, 0.04, 0.02, 0.01, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03, 0.04, 0.04, 0.05, 0.09, 0.16, 0.18, 0.37, 0.57, 0.75, 0.98, 1.07, 1.14, 1.15, 1.10, 0.90, 0.83, 0.98, 1.12, 1.40, 1.96, 2.00, 1.80, 1.79, 1.48, 1.21, 0.83, 0.64, 0.41, 0.33, 0.26, 0.26, 0.24, 0.26, 0.18, 0.14, 0.08, 0.07, 0.06, 0.07, 0.07, 0.13, 0.15, 0.16, 0.19, 0.34, 0.54, 0.98, 1.26, 1.46, 1.23, 1.25, 1.19, 1.30, 1.31, 1.29, 1.19, 1.06, 1.13, 1.35, 1.54, 1.70, 1.91, 1.91, 1.61, 1.42, 1.49, 1.55, 1.54, 1.62, 2.10, 2.71, 3.58, 5.80, 6.65, 5.29, 4.66, 4.67, 5.03, 4.34, 3.70, 3.41, 3.65, 4.72, 6.21, 7.36, 7.40, 6.72, 5.72, 4.27, 2.78, 2.09, 1.80, 1.51, 1.35, 1.37, 1.96, 2.36, 3.20, 3.78, 5.05, 5.52, 4.60, 3.64, 2.46, 2.09, 1.54, 1.30, 1.21, 1.31, 1.47, 1.91, 2.62, 2.99, 3.07, 2.78, 2.31, 1.63, 1.39, 1.50, 1.60, 1.87, 2.08, 4.29, 3.84, 2.48, 1.52, 1.34, 1.47, 1.78, 2.07, 2.20, 2.27],"x":list(range(148))}
Chart(is_pdf).set_data(spark).spark(width=150).md("covid_infection.svg")
```
Covid infections, here estimated by the ONS in the form of a spark line (see [full report](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/datasets/coronaviruscovid19infectionsurveydata)) ![covid infection estimate over time](covid_infection.svg). Here is some more text, this time with[^2] a footnote.

[^2]: Here is the second footnote.