LayoutForMe is an open source document generator that helps you to focus more on the content.

You write Markdown, it gives you a PDF document (for now...).

• Retrieve history of your document throught git tags
• Templating templates !
• Template translation
• Template inclusion

• Go
• A LaTeX distribution (in order to have the lualatex command)
• libgit2
• pandoc

go get github.com/Dhiver/layoutForMe

go install github.com/Dhiver/layoutForMe

You can see an example workdir HERE.

In a new git repository, put your markdown files inside a folder named content.

Ex.

.
|- content/
|  |- intro.md
|  |- conclusion.md

Create an empty build folder and an empty file named configuration.yaml.

In a file called metadata.yaml set metadata about your document:

Here is an example :

lang: fr-FR
dateLayout: "02/01/2006"

title: Bonjour à tous !
author:
    - John Smith
    - Foo Bar

abstract:
date:
version:

includeOrder:
    - intro.md
    - conclusion.md

output:
    - name: mon_document
      extention: pdf
      template: article.tex.tmpl

If you leave the abstract field blank, the content of a file nammed README.md will be load into.

If the date field is leave empty, the current date will be automatically inserted.

If the version field is empty, layoutForMe will look for tags in the current git repository and insert then as entries.

A template will be a LaTeX document (.tex) with Go templating language.

Here is an example

In the template, you can use variables defined in metadata.go as well as functions defined in template.go (near funcMap).

layoutForMe -path /your/document/path

The generated document will be in the build folder.

In the configuration file : configuration.yaml you can change some values :

• metaFile (Default: metadata.yaml)
• buildFolder (Default: build)
• textFolder (Default: content)
• pictureFolder (Default: img)
• templateFolder (Default: templates)
• translateFolder (Default: translations)
• latexEngine (Default: lualatex)