Markdown to PDF workflow event on more files

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#1

I have a public repository, where there are more README.md files in different folders (https://github.com/ervinw/basic-informatics);
I’ve created a a workflow by a provided example:
https://github.com/ervinw/basic-informatics/blob/0d56e614a4ed4adfabacb20dbc882ec5f4ec66de/.github/workflows/topdf.yml
(not working right now), which worked well on one file,
but I would like to extend it generate more PDF-s from other files as well.
Is that possible?
Thank you, Ervin

#2

Sure! What I’d do is install Pandoc directly:

      - name: install Pandoc
        run: |
          export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
          apt-get update
          apt-get -y install pandoc

You could then either call it directly in a run step (maybe with a loop), or use Make or a similar tool to automate the build process. I have a Make rule for something similar here (with additional YAML metadata):

%.pdf: %.md %.yaml
	$(PANDOC) --toc -f markdown -o $@ $^

The $(PANDOC) variable is set via Automake, you could just replace it with pandoc to assume the binary is available in the PATH.