From: Edward Delaporte <delaport@illinois.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 23:13:19 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: Add Markdown handling reminders
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Add Markdown handling reminders
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+## Markdown to PDF
+
+The usual VSCode plugins add a lot of weird junk (telemetry, perhaps), so I decided to start using brute force and minimal `GoLang` code to convert my Markdown into HTML.
+
+### Setup
+
+```powershell
+go install github.com/gomarkdown/mdtohtml@latest
+mdtohtml -h
+```
+
+### Generate document
+
+```powershell
+mdtohtml.exe -css https://edward.delaporte.us/css/edthedev.css .\Dashboard.md > Dashboard.html
+```
+
+VSCode Settings:
+```json
+"command-runner.terminal.name": "runCommand",
+"command-runner.terminal.autoClear": true,
+"command-runner.terminal.autoFocus": true,
+"command-runner.commands": {
+    "markdown to HTML": "mdtohtml.exe -css https://edward.delaporte.us/css/edthedev.css ${file} > ${file}.html",
+	"HTML to PDF": "wkhtmltopdf.exe ${file}.html ${file}.pdf",
+},
+```
+
+Then `Ctrl+Shift+P`, `Run Command` and select `markdown to HTML`.
+
+## Markdown to PDF
+
+### Setup
+
+Install `wkhtml2pdf.exe` somewhere on my path. 
+
+### Use
+
+```powershell
+wkhtmltopdf.exe .\Dashboard.md.html dash.pdf
+```
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