Writing letters in markdown via LaTeX

This is a set of tasks and templates to be able to write letters in markdown with any editor and have it come out as a nicely formatted PDF following the layout of a standard German letter with the help of pandoc and LaTeX.

make

See the example markdown file and generated PDFs for an idea what it looks like to use this.

• GNU make
• pandoc
• a TeX install that provides pdflatex

This is mostly an export from my private documents repo. The provided files may or may not work for you. But they might serve as a useful starting point.