Markdown to PDF

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Turn a markdown file into a pdf:

1lowdown -stms "$FILE".md | pdfroff -itk -mspdf > "$FILE".pdf

To give the document a title, put that title in the metadata:

1sed -i "1 i---" "$FILE".md
2sed -i 1 ititle: $TITLE $FILE.md
3sed -i "1 i---" "$FILE".md
4lowdown -L "$FILE".md
5lowdown -X title "$FILE".md
6lowdown -stms "$FILE".md | pdfroff -itk -mspdf > "$FILE".pdf