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Either you've already heard of pandoc or if you have searched online for markdown to pdf or similar, you are sure to come across pandoc. This tutorial will help you use pandoc to generate pdf and epub from a GitHub style markdown file. The main motivation for this blog post is to highlight what customizations I did to generate pdf and epub versions for self-publishing my ebooks. It wasn't easy to arrive at the setup I ended up with, so I hope this will be useful for those looking to use pandoc to generate pdf and epub formats. This guide is specifically aimed at technical books that has code snippets.

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The above image was generated using matplotlib courtesy code provided by Doing Math with Python book.

The surprise🔗

So, a pleasant surprise awaited me last Sunday. As is my usual habit, I opened my github account after breakfast to see if I've got any sudden spurt in traffic. And as usual, things were normal. Except for the blue notification, which was rare. I hoped it wasn't a silly pull request and thankfully it was a new issue that was opened.