Feature Ideas

[apotenza92]

Hi, this little utility is great! Here are some ideas I had for extra options in the GUI while I was using it:

1. Autofill 'Output file' with 'Input file' by default but with .pdf instead of .md obviously...
2. Portrait / Landscape geometry
3. Two / Three Columns
4. Link / URL Colour
5. Offset heading numbers: e.g. Heading 1 becomes a 'Title' and a Heading 2 is numbered X instead of X.X, this is achieved by --shift-heading-level-by=-1
6. Automatically select Custom PDF Engine if Custom Font is used. I've found lualatex is the most consistent to produce custom fonts.

[apotenza92]

Bigger ideas that would likely be lots of work:
7. Support certain Pandoc Filters somehow? Auto-install them when enabled in the GUI?
8. Headers and Footers. Temporarily create a separate YAML file based on GUI input for a header or footer that inputs into the pandoc command. Start with basic option for page numbers?

[apotenza92]

Unsure if Eisvogel could be useful somehow? Sorry for lots of comments. I'm kind of new to pandoc and latex and how formatting can work.

[Ombrelin]

Hi thank you for your inputs, I will definitely look into it when I'll put some time in this project, probably by the end of september