Is there a way to merge all content

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Hi,

I am testing Hugo to generate static web sites and it works great!

I also need to create other files based on my content (PDF, Word, etc). Is there a way to “merge” all my content within a single .md file ? (With it, i can use Pandoc to generate other files).

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best regards

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Not an answer for Markdown, but Org mode already does that.

I have all my site content in a single Org file. I can choose to export that whole file as PDF, ODF, etc. or have bits and pieces of that exported to the Hugo generated site.

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To add to @kaushalmodi’s answer, another option would be to loop through all your pages, grab their title/content/etc, then print the generated html page as pdf (or convert it using pandoc).

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Thanks for your replies

@kaushalmodi, i don’t use Org mode and it’s not really convenient in my case to work on a single file. My goal is to get one from the hierarchy.

@zwbetz sounds a good plan, but no idea how to achieve that ^^

Thanks again

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That’s exactly what I am doing for an e-zine about role playing games. The single issues feature a couple of articles which all have a page of their own. For the PDF version I needed all articles on one page from which weasyprint generates the final pdf.

{{ range where .Parent.Data.Pages.ByWeight "Type" "article" }}
<div>
    <h1 class="article-header-all">{{ .Title }}</h1>
    <p class="description">{{ .Description }}</p>
    <p>{{ .Content }}</p>
</div>
{{ end }}

Issue main page:
https://www.erzaehlspiel-zine.de/ausgaben/ausgabe_003/

Article sub page:
https://www.erzaehlspiel-zine.de/ausgaben/ausgabe_003/rezension-itrasby-menagerie/

Print version:
https://www.erzaehlspiel-zine.de/ausgaben/ausgabe_003/print/

Final pdf:
https://www.erzaehlspiel-zine.de/media/ausgabe_003/Erzählspiel-Zine_Ausgabe_003.pdf

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@holehan your use case is close to a future project I’m considering.

Specifically, combining Hugo and Weasyprint.

I’d love to know how you’re incorporating Weasyprint with Hugo. Are they both existing in a monorepo?

I have no familiarity with Python, but would love to incorporate Hugo with a host like Netlify and ideally have Weasyprint automatically generate PDFs on the server (when required) with each build.

Any info would be much appreciated! :slightly_smiling_face:

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@Rasterisk The way I do it, there is no interaction between Hugo and Weasyprint. In fact weasyprint isn’t even part of my project files. Whenever I’m producing a new issue, I let Hugo/Netlify generate the html, then execute weasyprint manually to generate the pdf from the live site with e.g.

weasyprint https://erzaehlspiel-zine.de/ausgaben/ausgabe_003/print/ document.pdf

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Maybe try it this way:

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Thanks for the clarification! Much appreciated.