wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template

Eisvogel is a template that turns plain markdown text files into polished PDF documents. It works alongside a document conversion tool called pandoc, which reads your markdown and applies the template to produce output that looks like a professionally typeset document. The project was built with lecture notes and technical exercises in mind, but the resulting PDFs are clean enough for many other uses. To use it, you install pandoc and a LaTeX distribution on your computer, then download the template files from the project's releases page and place them in the folder pandoc expects. From there, a single command converts your markdown file to a PDF. You can also run it without installing anything locally by using a pre-built Docker image that bundles pandoc, the template, and all required dependencies together. The template ships in two forms: one for regular documents like articles, books, and notes, and one for slide presentations using a system called Beamer. Both are obtained from the releases page rather than directly from the repository, since the repository stores the source files that get assembled into those final templates at release time. Customization is handled through settings you place at the top of your markdown file in a block of YAML metadata. You can control whether a title page appears, its background color, logo, and text colors, as well as what appears in the headers and footers of each page. Options cover things like code listing formatting, page backgrounds, footnote style, and whether the document should be typeset in book format. The full list of available settings is documented in the README. The project is straightforward in scope: it does one thing, which is give pandoc a clean, configurable visual style for PDF output. If you write documentation, course materials, or reports in markdown and want them to look like a real document without touching any design tools, this template handles that step.