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.gitignore

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+node_modules
+

generate.coffee

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+fs = require 'fs'
+_ = require 'underscore'
+vm = require 'vm'
+md = require('markdown').markdown
+coffee = require 'coffee-script'
+CodeMirror = require 'codemirror/addon/runmode/runmode.node'
+PDFDocument = require 'pdfkit'
+
+Array::first ?= -> @[0]
+
+Array::last ?= -> @[@length - 1]
+
+process.chdir(__dirname)
+
+# setup code mirror coffeescript mode
+filename = require.resolve('codemirror/mode/coffeescript/coffeescript')
+coffeeMode = fs.readFileSync filename, 'utf8'
+vm.runInNewContext coffeeMode, CodeMirror: CodeMirror
+
+# style definitions for markdown
+styles =
+  # h1:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 25
+  #   padding: 15
+  # h2:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 18
+  #   padding: 10
+  # h3:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 18
+  #   padding: 10
+  meta:
+    font: 'Times-Roman'
+    fontSize: 12
+    lineGap: 24
+    align: 'left'
+    indent: 0
+  title:
+    font: 'Times-Roman'
+    fontSize: 12
+    lineGap: 24
+    align: 'center'
+  para:
+    font: 'Times-Roman'
+    fontSize: 12
+    lineGap: 24
+    align: 'left'
+    indent: 72
+    # padding: 10
+  # code:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 9
+  # code_block:
+  #   padding: 10
+  #   background: '#2c2c2c'
+  # inlinecode:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 10
+  # listitem:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 10
+  #   padding: 6
+  # link:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 10
+  #   color: 'blue'
+  #   underline: true
+  # example:
+  #   font: 'Times-Roman'
+  #   fontSize: 9
+  #   color: 'black'
+  #   padding: 10
+  em:
+    font: 'Times-Italic'
+    align: 'left'
+  strong:
+    font: 'Times-Bold'
+    align: 'left'
+  # u:
+  #   underline: true
+
+# syntax highlighting colors
+# based on Github's theme
+colors =
+  keyword: '#cb4b16'
+  atom: '#d33682'
+  number: '#009999'
+  def: '#2aa198'
+  variable: '#108888'
+  'variable-2': '#b58900'
+  'variable-3': '#6c71c4'
+  property: '#2aa198'
+  operator: '#6c71c4'
+  comment: '#999988'
+  string: '#dd1144'
+  'string-2': '#009926'
+  meta: '#768E04'
+  qualifier: '#b58900'
+  builtin: '#d33682'
+  bracket: '#cb4b16'
+  tag: '#93a1a1'
+  attribute: '#2aa198'
+  header: '#586e75'
+  quote: '#93a1a1'
+  link: '#93a1a1'
+  special: '#6c71c4'
+  default: '#002b36'
+
+codeBlocks = []
+lastType = null
+
+# This class represents a node in the markdown tree, and can render it to pdf
+class Node
+  constructor: (tree) ->
+    # special case for text nodes
+    if typeof tree is 'string'
+      @type = 'text'
+      @text = tree
+      return
+
+    @type = tree.shift()
+    @attrs = {}
+
+    if typeof tree[0] is 'object' and not Array.isArray tree[0]
+      @attrs = tree.shift()
+
+    # parse sub nodes
+    @content = while tree.length
+      new Node tree.shift()
+
+    switch @type
+      when 'header'
+        @type = 'h' + @attrs.level
+
+      when 'code_block'
+        # use code mirror to syntax highlight the code block
+        code = @content[0].text
+        @content = []
+        CodeMirror.runMode code, 'coffeescript', (text, style) =>
+          color = colors[style] or colors.default
+          opts =
+            color: color
+            continued: text isnt '\n'
+
+          @content.push new Node ['code', opts, text]
+
+        @content[@content.length - 1]?.attrs.continued = false
+        codeBlocks.push code
+
+      when 'img'
+        # images are used to generate inline example output
+        # compiles the coffeescript to JS so it can be run
+        # in the render method
+        @type = 'example'
+        code = codeBlocks[@attrs.alt]
+        @code = coffee.compile code if code
+        @height = +@attrs.title or 0
+
+    @style = styles[@type] or styles.para
+
+  # sets the styles on the document for this node
+  setStyle: (doc) ->
+    if @style.font
+      doc.font @style.font
+
+    if @style.fontSize
+      doc.fontSize @style.fontSize
+
+    if @style.color or @attrs.color
+      doc.fillColor @style.color or @attrs.color
+    else
+      doc.fillColor 'black'
+
+    options = {}
+    options.lineGap = @style.lineGap || 24
+    options.align = @style.align
+    options.indent = @style.indent
+    # options.paragraphGap = 24
+    options.link  = @attrs.href or false # override continued link
+    options.continued = @attrs.continued if @attrs.continued?
+    return options
+
+  # renders this node and its subnodes to the document
+  render: (doc, continued = false) ->
+    switch @type
+      when 'example'
+        @setStyle doc
+
+        # translate all points in the example code to
+        # the current point in the document
+        doc.moveDown()
+        doc.save()
+        doc.translate(doc.x, doc.y)
+        x = doc.x
+        y = doc.y
+        doc.x = doc.y = 0
+
+        # run the example code with the document
+        vm.runInNewContext @code,
+          doc: doc
+          lorem: lorem
+
+        # restore points and styles
+        y += doc.y
+        doc.restore()
+        doc.x = x
+        doc.y = y + @height
+      when 'hr'
+        doc.addPage()
+      else
+        # loop through subnodes and render them
+        for fragment, index in @content
+          if fragment.type is 'text'
+            # add a new page for each heading, unless it follows another heading
+            if @type in ['h1', 'h2'] and lastType? and lastType isnt 'h1'
+              doc.addPage()
+
+            # set styles and whether this fragment is continued (for rich text wrapping)
+            options = @setStyle doc
+            options.continued ?= continued or index < @content.length - 1
+
+            # remove newlines unless this is code
+            unless @type is 'code'
+              fragment.text = fragment.text.replace(/[\r\n]\s*/g, ' ')
+
+            doc.text fragment.text, options
+          else
+            fragment.render doc, index < @content.length - 1 and @type isnt 'bulletlist'
+
+          lastType = @type
+
+    if @style.padding
+      doc.y += @style.padding
+
+# reads and renders a markdown/literate coffeescript file to the document
+render = (doc, filename) ->
+  doc.font 'Times-Roman'
+  doc.fontSize 12
+
+  codeBlocks = []
+  content = fs.readFileSync(filename, 'utf8')
+
+  body = ""
+
+  metadata_pattern = /// ^
+    ([\w.-]+) # key
+    \:\       # colon
+    \s*       # optional whitespace
+    (.+)      # value
+  $///
+
+  metadata = {}
+
+  for line in content.split("\n")
+    if meta = line.match(metadata_pattern)
+      key = meta[1]
+      value = meta[2]
+      metadata[key] = value
+    else
+      body += line
+
+  metadata.lastName ||= metadata.author?.split(" ").last()
+  # console.log metadata
+
+  # add header
+  doc.text(metadata.author, styles.meta)
+  doc.text(metadata.instructor, styles.meta)
+  doc.text(metadata.course, styles.meta)
+  doc.text(metadata.date, styles.meta)
+  doc.text(metadata.title, styles.title)
+
+  tree = md.parse body
+  tree.shift()
+
+  while tree.length
+    node = new Node tree.shift()
+    node.render(doc)
+
+  # add page numbers
+  range = doc.bufferedPageRange() # => { start: 0, count: 2 }
+
+  for i in [range.start...range.start + range.count]
+    doc.switchToPage(i)
+    doc.y = 72/2
+    doc.x = 72
+    doc.text "#{metadata.lastName} #{i + 1}",
+      align: 'right'
+
+  doc.flushPages()
+  doc
+
+# renders the title page of the guide
+renderTitlePage = (doc) ->
+  title = 'PDFKit Guide'
+  author = 'By Devon Govett'
+  version = 'Version ' + require('./package.json').version
+
+  doc.font 'fonts/AlegreyaSans-Light.ttf', 60
+  doc.y = doc.page.height / 2 - doc.currentLineHeight()
+  doc.text title, align: 'center'
+  w = doc.widthOfString(title)
+
+  doc.fontSize 20
+  doc.y -= 10
+  doc.text author,
+    align: 'center'
+    indent: w - doc.widthOfString(author)
+
+  doc.font styles.para.font, 10
+  doc.text version,
+    align: 'center'
+    indent: w - doc.widthOfString(version)
+
+  doc.addPage()
+
+renderHeader = (doc) ->
+
+do ->
+  doc = new PDFDocument
+    bufferPages: true
+
+  doc.pipe fs.createWriteStream('guide.pdf')
+  render doc, 'test.coffee.md'
+
+  doc.end()

package.json

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+{
+  "name": "markdowntomla",
+  "description": "A .md -> MLA-formatted .pdf converter",
+  "keywords": [
+    "pdf",
+    "markdown",
+    "MLA",
+    "md",
+    "document"
+  ],
+  "version": "0.0.1",
+  "homepage": "",
+  "author": {
+    "name": "Christian Genco",
+    "email": "christian@gen.co",
+    "url": "http://christian.gen.co"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "https://github.com/christiangenco/markdowntomla.git"
+  },
+  "bugs": "http://github.com/christiangenco/markdowntomla/issues",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "coffee-script": ">=1.0.1",
+    "codemirror": "~3.20.0",
+    "markdown": "~0.5.0",
+    "jade": "~1.1.5",
+    "coffeeify": "^0.6.0",
+    "browserify": "^3.39.0",
+    "brfs": "~1.0.1",
+    "exorcist": "^0.1.5",
+    "brace": "^0.2.1",
+    "blob-stream": "^0.1.2"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "pdfkit": "~0.7.1",
+    "underscore": "*",
+    "png-js": ">=0.1.0",
+    "linebreak": "~0.1.0"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "prepublish": "make js",
+    "postpublish": "make clean"
+  },
+  "main": "js/document",
+  "browserify": {
+    "transform": [
+      "brfs"
+    ]
+  },
+  "engine": [
+    "node >= v0.10.0"
+  ]
+}

test.coffee.md

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+author: Elizabeth L. Genco
+instructor: Professor Patricia Sullivan
+course: English 624
+date: 12 February 2012
+title: Toward a Recovery of Nineteenth Century Farming Handbooks
+
+While researching texts like *Harry Potter* written about nineteenth century farming, I found a few authors who published books about the literature of nineteenth century farming, particularly agricultural journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures. These authors often placed the farming literature they were studying into an historical context by discussing the important events in agriculture of the year in which the literature was published (see Demaree, for example). However, while these authors discuss journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures, I could not find much discussion about another important source of farming knowledge: farming handbooks. My goal in this paper is to bring this source into the agricultural literature discussion by connecting three agricultural handbooks from the nineteenth century with nineteenth century agricultural history.
+
+To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into four main sections, two of which have sub-sections. In the first section, I provide an account of three important events in nineteenth century agricultural history: population and technological changes, the distribution of scientific new knowledge, and farming's influence on education. In the second section, I discuss three nineteenth century farming handbooks in connection with the important events described in the first section. I end my paper with a third section that offers research questions that could be answered in future versions of this paper and conclude with a fourth section that discusses the importance of expanding this particular project. I also include an appendix after the Works Cited that contains images of the three handbooks I examined. Before I can begin the examination of the three handbooks, however, I need to provide an historical context in which the books were written, and it is to this that I now turn.
+
+By the 1860s, the need for this knowledge was strong enough to affect education. John Nicholson anticipated this effect in 1820 in the “Experiments” section of his book *The Farmer’s Assistant; Being a Digest of All That Relates to Agriculture and the Conducting of Rural Affairs; Alphabetically Arranged and Adapted for the United States*:
+
+> Perhaps it would be well, if some institution were devised, and supported at the expense of the State, which would be so organized as would tend most effectually to produce a due degree of emulation among Farmers, by rewards and honorary distinctions conferred by those who, by their successful experimental efforts and improvements, should render themselves duly entitled to them. (92)

todo.md

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 # Todo
 
-* italic
+* new paragraphs
 * blockquotes
+* headings
 * works cited page
-* citations
+* citations?