chore: added a simple script to create the ebook

README.md

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+---
+title: "Hacker Laws"
+author: "Dave Kerr, github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws"
+subtitle: "Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful."
+---
+
 # 💻📖 hacker-laws
 
 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

assets/ebook.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Requirements:
+# - pandoc
+# - xelatex
+# brew install 
+# brew cask install basictex
+
+# First, we need to make a copy of the README, which we will modify slighty.
+cp README.md hacker-laws.md
+
+# Remove the title - we have it in the front-matter of the doc, so it will
+# automatically be added to the PDF.
+sed -i '' '/💻📖.*/d' hacker-laws.md
+
+# We can't have emojis in the final content with the PDF generator we're using.
+sed -i '' 's/❗/Warning/' hacker-laws.md
+
+# Now rip out the translations line.
+sed -i '' '/^\[Translations.*/d' hacker-laws.md
+
+# # Now rip out any table of contents items.
+sed -i '' '/\*.*/d' hacker-laws.md
+sed -i '' '/    \*.*/d' hacker-laws.md
+
+# Delete everything from 'Translations' onwards (we don't need the translations
+# lists, related projects, etc).
+sed -i ' ' '/## Translations/,$d' hacker-laws.md
+
+# Now build the e-book as a PDF.
+pandoc  -V toc-title:"Table Of Contents" --toc --pdf-engine=pdflatex -s -o hacker-laws.pdf hacker-laws.md