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How to Create a PDF

The Cloud Foundry Docs are written in MultiMarkdown (MMD). If you want to install the MultiMarkdown tools, you can read about that here: MultiMarkdown

To create a PDF from a MMD document you need both MultiMarkdown and LaTeX on your system. You can read about how to do this here: LaTeX Home Page

If you are on a Mac, It is recommended that you install MultiMarkdown Composer from the Apple App Store, but any text editor will do.

You can create a nicely formatted PDF like this…

  1. Download John Fletcher's MMD Latex Support files here

  2. Install them here ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/mmd or on Unix here: ~/texmf/tex/latex/mmd

  3. Edit the mmd-article-begin-doc.tex file with:

     \begin{document}
 \title{\mytitle}
 \author{© \myauthor}
 \date{\relax}%TeX note: relax: null

  4. At the top of your MMD document, create metadata such as:

     latex input:	mmd-article-header
 Title:	Cloud Foundry Technical Overview 
 Author:	VMware 2012 - Cloud Foundry
 Base Header Level:	2  
 LaTeX Mode:	memoir  
 latex input:        mmd-article-begin-doc
 latex footer:       mmd-memoir-footer

  5. You can create a PDF from Markdown using the instructions on John Fletcher's site - or you can use MultiMarkdown Composer to Export to LaTeX, and then generate a PDF from there.