marked-it-cli

A command-line interface for marked-it that adds support for conref attributes, uniform headers/footers, and .pdf generation.

Install

npm install -g marked-it-cli

You may need to sudo the above command since it installs globally.

Usage

marked-it-cli <sourceDirectory> --output=<destinationDirectory> [OPTIONS]

Required Arguments

<sourceDirectory>
	The path of the directory containing source Markdown files.  Subdirectories will be recursed.
	
--output
	The path of the directory to write generated files to.  Directory structures from the source directory will be replicated here.

options

--overwrite
	Overwrite output files that already exist
--disable-attributes
	Disable processing of Kramdown-style attribute lists
--disable-front-matter
	Disable processing of Jekyll-style front matter blocks
--toc-xml
	Generate a toc.xml file for directories containing a valid toc file
--toc-depth=<maxHeaderLevel>
	Set the maximum header level that will appear in toc files (default=3)
--verbose
	Output verbose details
--debug
	Output even more verbose details
--gen-pdf
	Generate .pdf files
--pdf-options-file=<pdfOptionsFile>
	Path to the file with PDF generation options
--header-file=<headerSourceFile>
	Path to the file with content to be prepended to the generated .html
--footer-file=<footerSourceFile>
	Path to the file with content to be appended to the generated .html
--conref-file=<conrefFile>
	Path to the file containing DITA-style variable definitions

PDF Generation

For PDF file generation to succeed, wkhtmltopdf must be installed and the path to its binary must be in the OS' PATH environment variable. Note that on Windows the wkhtmltopdf arch (32-/64-bit) must match that of the node.js being used.

If --pdfOptionsFile is not specified then all default options will be used. Custom options are specified in strict JSON format as the camel-cased equivalents of the options described in the wkhtmltopdf options. For an example see included file example/examplePDFoptions.

Example

The "examples" directory demonstrates the CLI's features. To generate it use command:

node ./bin/marked-it-cli ./example --output=./exampleOutput --extension-file=./example/headerFooterExt.js --gen-pdf --pdf-options-file=./example/pdfOptions --conref-file=./example/conref.yml --toc-xml