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Markup languages like Markdown [1] are perfectly suited for fast note taking. Type your notes with your favourite text editor and observe the live rendered text in your web browser.
Tp-Note helps you to quickly get started writing notes with its powerful template system. If you like to keep your notes next to your files, and you care about expressive filenames, then Tp-Note might be the tool of your choice. As Tp-Note synchronizes the note’s filename with its document title, you will find your notes more easily.
Tp-Note is available for Linux, Windows and MacOS. This manual illustrates its main use cases and how to get started:
Fast start note taking (when the lecture starts).
Take a note about an existing or downloaded file.
Bookmark and comment a hyperlink.
Copy and annotate a page from a book.
Best practice.
Note taking for system administrators.
If you want to customize Tp-Note with your own templates or if you want to use another markup language than Markdown, please consult Tp-Note’s man-page for more technical details. It also explains how to change Tp-Note’s default text editor.
The project is hosted on Gitlab: getreu/tp-note. The project’s webpage is on http://blog.getreu.net. The documentation of this project is dived into two parts:
User manual
Unix man-page (more technical)
A fellow student still uses paper and pen. I asked her why, and she replied with “It helps me concentrate better. My computer distracts me. I will do many other things and I wont remain concentrated on my task.”.
This is certainly true. As far as I am concerned, I am not good at logistics. For me having all my documents and notes on one little machine is a blessing.
The following sections illustrate how to work with Tp-Note with my most common workflows.
Alternatively you can open the folder where you want to create a new note and right-click on some empty white space.
Note
Before and after launching the editor Tp-Note renames the file to be in sync with the note’s metadata (i.e. title and subtitle). For more details see How it works: Organize your files and notes with sort-tags.
The source code of the note shows the link with its target. The
left-click, opens the .odt
document.
--- title: Lied-Das_ist_mein_Teddybär - Arbeitsblätter.odt subtitle: Note author: Getreu date: 2023-09-21 lang: en-GB --- [03-Lied-Das_ist_mein_Teddybär - Arbeitsblätter.odt](<03-Lied-Das_ist_mein_Teddybär - Arbeitsblätter.odt>)
The approach is similar to what we have seen in the previous chapter:
Note: for convenience I use in this example the Firefox browser addon Copy Selection as Markdown to copy the hyperlink. If this addon is not available, you can also copy the URL directly from the search bar.
The source-code of the note shows the links with their targets.
--- title: ascii-hangman.exe subtitle: URL author: Getreu date: 2020-08-27 lang: en-GB --- [ascii-hangman.exe](<ascii-hangman.exe>) [ASCII-Hangman - hangman game for children with ASCII-art rewarding](<https://blog.getreu.net/projects/ascii-hangman/#distribution>)
To copy a link in Markdown format a browser addon is needed. I recommend the addons Copy as Markdown and Copy Selection as Markdown available for Firefox.
The source code of the note shows the link target:
--- title: Rustacean Station subtitle: URL author: Getreu date: 2023-09-21 lang: en-GB --- [Rustacean Station](<https://rustacean-station.org/>)
In this example we copied only one Markdown link “Rustacean Station”. Furthermore, Tp-Note allows you also to insert a list of Markdown links in a template. For example with Copy as Markdown you could copy a link list of all open tabs. In this case, Tp-Note would retain only the name of the first link as document title, whereas the whole link list would appear in the body of the note.
The source code of the note shows the completed template:
--- title: Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen subtitle: Note author: Getreu date: 2020-03-23 lang: en-GB --- Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. A kilometer away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape...
In this example we copied only text. Tp-Note suggests the first sentence as title. This can be changed before saving as illustrated above. Here we just save and observe the file on the disk.
Tp-Note’s greatest advantage is it’s flexibility. It easily integrates with your workflow. As people work differently, there is no best usage either. Nevertheless, after having used Tp-Note for some months now, here my personal preferences and configuration:
Addon for Firefox: Copy Selection as Markdown
Markdown editor : Apostrophe
Integration with the file manager (start entry in context menue) as described below.
My favourite Markdown editor at the moment is Apostrophe. I like its clean and simple interface helping me to stay focused on the content while writing.[2]
When copying extracts from a web-page, I often need to preserve its hyperlinks. For this, the Firefox browser addon Copy Selection as Markdown is very handy. It precedes the copied extract with a hyperlink to the origin of the webpage. When TP-Note reads the extract from the clipboard, it uses the first Markdown hyperlink it can find for composing the note’s title and its filename on disk. This is why the web page’s name ends up automatically in the note’s title and filename. Here a sample work flow:
Note, no content or filename was edited manually in this example. Tp-Note takes care of interpreting the clipboard’s content and generating the file on disk.
As Tp-Note makes extensive use of the clipboard, it mainly targets desktop systems running a graphical environment. But also when working on the console Tp-Note can be useful with its built-in clipboard simulation: Instead of copying the content into your clipboard, pipe it into Tp-Note:
echo "Some clipboard content" | tpnote
The following examples work with the full featured version of
Tp-Note as well as with the
--no-default-features
console only version.
Document a downloaded file:
Download the file i3-extensions.zip:
wget "http://blog.getreu.net/_downloads/i3-extensions.zip"
Document from where you downloaded the file:
echo "[download](<http://blog.getreu.net/_downloads/i3-extensions.zip>)" | tpnote i3-extensions.zip
This creates the file
i3-extensions.zip--URL.md
with the
following content:
--- title: i3-extensions.zip subtitle: URL author: getreu date: 2020-09-03 lang: en-GB --- [i3-extensions.zip](<i3-extensions.zip>) [download](<http://blog.getreu.net/_downloads/i3-extensions.zip>)
Download a webpage, convert it to Markdown and insert the result into a Tp-Note file. The note’s title is the name of the first hyperlink found in the webpage.
Install pandoc
and
curl
:
sudo apt install pandoc curl
Download and convert:
curl 'https://blog.getreu.net' | pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict | tpnote
Download a webpage while preserving its metadata:
Same as above, but the following preserves the webpage’s metadata, e.g. title, author, date… :
curl 'https://blog.getreu.net' | pandoc --standalone -f html -t markdown_strict+yaml_metadata_block | tpnote
creates the note file
20200910-Jens\ Getreu\'s\ blog.md
with
the webpage’s content.
Generate a note for a given content with YAML header:
echo -e "---\ntitle: Todo\nfile_ext: mdtxt\n---\n\nnothing" | tpnote
creates the file 20200910-Todo.mdtxt
with the content:
--- title: Todo subtitle: '' author: getreu date: 2020-09-13 lang: en-GB file_ext: mdtxt --- nothing
Reformat the header of a note file:
mv "20200921-My Note.md" "20200921-My Note-(1).md" cat "20200921-My Note-(1).md" | tpnote --batch
creates the file 20200921-My Note.md
with a rearranged header and the same body.
Launch, for once only, a different text editor.
The external text editor, Tp-Note defaults to, is defined in the configuration file and can be changed there. If you want to use a different text editor just for a one-shot, type:
FILE=$(tpnote --batch); vi "$FILE"; tpnote --batch "$FILE"
Create a new note overwriting the template’s default for
subtitle
:
cd dev echo -e "---\nsubtitle: Draft\n---\n# Draft" | tpnote
creates the note file
20200925-dev--Draft.md
with the
content:
--- title: dev subtitle: Draft author: Getreu date: 2020-09-25 lang: en-GB --- # Draft
Synchronize filenames and headers of all note files in the current directory:
find . -type f -name "*.md" -exec tpnote --batch {} \; >/dev/null
Generate an HTML rendition of an existing note file in the same directory:
tpnote --export='./my_notes' './my_notes/20210209-debug--Note.md'
or, equivalent but shorter:
tpnote --export= './my_notes/20210209-debug--Note.md'
or, even shorter:
tpnote -x '' './my_notes/20210209-debug--Note.md'
Generate a PDF rendition of an existing note file :
Install the wkhtmltopdf
-tool:
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf
Generate the PDF rendition of the existing note
20210122-my--Note.md
:
tpnote -x - '20210122-my--Note.md' | wkhtmltopdf - '20210209-debug--Note.md.pdf'
View and follow hyperlinks in a note file:
When no graphical environment is available, Tp-Note disables the viewer feature with its internal HTTP server. As a workaround, use Tp-Note’s HTML export flag and pipe the result into a text based web browser.
Install the text based web browser
lynx
:
sudo apt install lynx
Convert the existing note
20210122-my_note.md
into HTML and open
the rendition with lynx
:
tpnote -x - '20210122-my_note.md' | lynx --stdin
Note, the above also works in case
Tp-Note was compiled with
--no-default-features
which is
recommended for headless systems.
Consider the following Tp-Note-file:
20151208-Make this world a better place--Suggestions.md
The filename has 4 parts:
{{ fm_sort_tag }}-{{ fm_title }}--{{ fm_subtitle }}.{{ fm_file_ext }}
A so called sort-tag is a numerical prefix at
the beginning of the filename. It is used to order files and notes
in the file system. Besides numerical digits and whitespace, a
sort-tag can be any combination of
-_.
[3] and is usually used as:
chronological sort-tag
20140211-Reminder.doc 20151208-Manual.pdf 2015-12-08-Manual.pdf
or as a sequence number sort-tag.
02-Invoices 08-Tax documents 09_02-Notes 09.02-Notes
The figures below illustrate organizing files with *sort-tags”.
When Tp-Note creates a new note, it
automatically prepends a chronological
sort-tag of today. The
{{ fm_title }}
part is usually derived from the
parent directory’s name omitting its own
sort-tag.
Depending on the operating system, the installation process is more or less automated and can be divided into two steps:
Minimum setup without file manager integration
This step consists of downloading Tp-Note’s binary and copying it to your hard-disk. See section Distribution on Tp-Note’s project page for a list of available packages and binaries.
At the moment of this writing, an installer automating steps 1. and 2. is available for Windows only. Packages for Debian Linux and Ubuntu help you with step 1. For other operating systems check section Distribution for precompiled binaries or build Tp-Note yourself.
Tp-Note’s template engine can be tested and
used without file manager integration. Download the appropriate
binary for your architecture and place it in your
PATH
. See the
Distribution
in the section in Tp-Note’s Readme-document for more details.
Bear in mind that the preferred way to install Tp-Note under Windows is the Windows installer package. However, if you do not have the right to install software on your computer, you can place the Tp-Note binary directly on your desktop.
Once you have placed the tpnote
binary in
your PATH
you can invoke Tp-Note on the
command line by typing tpnote
optionally
followed by a directory path or a file path.
Having a copy (or symbolic link) of Tp-Note’s binary
tpnote
on your desktop, enables you to
execute the following workflow: To create a new note, either
double-click on the Tp-Note-icon, or drag
and drop a folder or file and drop it on the
Tp-Note-icon. This opens an editor with
your new note.
Anyway, for more comfort, I recommend integrating Tp-Note into the file manager’s context menu. See section Optional integration with your file manager for more details. There you also will find a list of tested Markdown editors, if you wish to use one. Tp-Note works with every Unicode text editor and Markdown editor (see section Optional customization and man-page for more details).
Tp-Note’s note files can be printed
directly from the viewer (webbrowser) window or first converted
into .html
with
tpnote -x '' mynote.md
. For other formats
e.g. .docx
, .odt
and
.pdf
use
Pandoc or
wkhtmltopdf
.
While upgrading Tp-Note, new features may cause a change in Tp-Notes’s configuration file structure and the program may fail to start displaying an error message. Please consult the following section Upgrading in the project’s Readme document for more information about incompatible configuration files.
Tp-Note
’s logging feature is controlled
with the command line-options: --debug
and
--popup
or by the corresponding
configuration file variables:
arg_default.debug
and
arg_default.popup
.
Please consult Tp-Note’s manual page for
more information about the debugging options
--debug
and --popup
and
how to use them.
BTW: Under Windows, when you see only Chinese characters in the Notepad text editor, update Windows to the latest version or install Notepad++.
Your preferred text editor is not Notepad? Change it![4]
Note taking with Tp-Note is more fun with a good markup (Markdown) text editor, although any Unicode text editor will do (even Notepad >= Windows 10-update 1903). Tp-Note is preconfigured to work with:
Please refer to Tp-Note’s man-page to learn how to register your text editor with Tp-Note’s configuration file.
You prefer working in a desktop environment instead of working on a shell?
Read the following section Optional integration with your file manager to learn how to configure your file manager’s context menu to launch Tp-Note.
Do you write your notes in multiple languages?
Tp-Note integrates complex linguistic
heuristics to determine in what natural language a new
note is authored and stores the result in the
lang:
header variable of the new note.
This process can be configured in various ways. The most
important is to provide Tp-Note with
a list of language candidates you write your notes. C.f.
the variable tmpl.filter.get_lang
in
Tp-Note’s configuration file.
You may also want to indicate the default region codes of
your preferred languages. C.f. the variable
tmpl.filter.map_lang
in Tp-Note’s
configuration file.
Please refer to customization section in Tp-Note’s man-page to learn how to configure Tp-Note’s natural language processing.
Is your preferred web browser is not Firefox? Change it![5]
After opening the text editor, Tp-Note internally renders the note file and opens a web browser to display the note’s content. Which web browser on your system will be launched, depends on which of them Tp-Note finds first by searching through a configurable list of well known web browsers.
Please refer to Tp-Note’s man-page to learn how change which web browser Tp-Note launches as note viewer.
The way the note will appear in your web browser depends on:
which of Tp-Note’s internal markup renderer is used and
the HTML template, that defines the visual appearance (colours, fonts etc.) of the rendition.
Please refer to Tp-Note’s man-page to learn how to register a file extension with a particular markup renderer or to learn how to change the HTML-template that renders the note’s content.
Your preferred markup language is not Markdown, but ReStructuredText, Asciidoc, T2t, Textile, Wiki* or Mediawiki? Change it!
Tp-Note’s core function is a template system and as such it is markup language agnostic. The default templates largely abstain from markup specific code, which makes it easy to switch the default new note’s markup language. Please refer to Tp-Note’s man-page to learn how to change its templates in the configuration file.
In addition, Tp-Note comes with a build in note viewer which is optional and independent from its core functionality. When Tp-Note opens a note file, it detects the markup language through the note file extension and launches the associated builtin markup renderer. The whole process can be customized in Tp-Note’s configuration file. Please refer to Tp-Note’s man-page for details.
This section shows how to integrate Tp-Note in the context menu of your file manager. The context menu appears, when you click right on a file icon, on a directory icon or on the white space in between (cf. figure below). In the following we will configure the file manager to launch Tp-Note with the path to the selected icon.
Tp-Note is distributed with a Microsoft
Windows Installer package
tpnote-x.x.x-x86_64.msi
, which automates the
following key registration. Omit this section if you have
installed Tp-Note through this
.msi
package!
Make the directory
C:\Program Files\tpnote\bin\
with
Administrator rights and move the binary
tpnote.exe
into it.
Open the notepad text editor and paste the following registry key into it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\New Tp-Note] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\New Tp-Note\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\OpenWithList\tpnote.exe] @="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\edit.tpnote.exe] @="Edit Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\edit.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\view.tpnote.exe] @="View Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\view.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"-v\" \"-n\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\export.tpnote.exe] @="Export Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.txt\shell\export.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"--export=\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\edit.tpnote.exe] @="Edit Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\edit.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\view.tpnote.exe] @="View Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\view.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"-v\" \"-n\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\export.tpnote.exe] @="Export Tp-Note" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.md\shell\export.tpnote.exe\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\tpnote\\bin\\tpnote.exe\" \"--export=\" \"%1\""
Save the file as:
File name: tpnote.reg
Save as type: All files
Encoding: UTF-16 LE
Double-click on tpnote.reg
and confirm
several times.
Assign tpnote
as default application for
.md
-files
To simplify the configuration we first place the binary
Tp-Note in our $PATH
:
cd /usr/local/bin sudo wget https://blog.getreu.net/projects/tp-note/_downloads/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/tpnote sudo chmod 755 tpnote
Debian and Ubuntu user can also download [Debian/Ubuntu package] and install it with:
sudo dpkg -i tpnote_latest_amd64.deb
Most file manager allow extending the context menu. As an example, the following images show the configuration of the Thunar file manger.
In Thunar’s menu go to:
Edit -> Configure custom actions...
The following context menu entry allows us to view the rendered note in the system’s default web browser. This is very handy when your note contains hyperlinks.
In Thunar, we add a custom action the same way as we did before:
Alternatively, instead of manually adding custom actions for each user, you can do this system-wide:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/Thunar/uca.xml
Search for </actions>
and replace it
with:
<action> <icon>accessories-text-editor</icon> <name>Tp-Note</name> <command>tpnote %f</command> <description>Tp-Note</description> <patterns>*</patterns> <directories/> <audio-files/> <image-files/> <other-files/> <text-files/> <video-files/> </action> <action> <icon>accessories-text-editor</icon> <name>Tp-Note View</name> <command>tpnote -v -n %f</command> <description>Tp-Note View</description> <patterns>*.txt; *.md;*.rst;*.adoc;*.txtnote</patterns> <text-files/> </action> </actions>
The change becomes effective only after the user deletes his
own configuration file in
~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
:
killall thunar rm ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml thunar
Optional bonus: add a menu entry “Download webpage as Markdown”
In addition to the above, the following adds a context menu entry for fast downloading and converting a webpage to a Markdown Tp-Note file.
First install some helper programs:
sudo apt install xclip curl pandoc
Then edit the system-wide Thunar configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/Thunar/uca.xml
Search for </actions>
and replace it
with:
<action> <icon>accessories-text-editor</icon> <name>Download URL here</name> <command>curl $(xclip -o)| pandoc --standalone -f html -t markdown_strict+yaml_metadata_block+pipe_tables | tpnote %F</command> <description>Download URL</description> <patterns>*</patterns> <directories/> </action> </actions>
The change becomes effective only after the user deletes his
own configuration file in
~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
:
killall thunar rm ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml thunar
Optional bonus 2: add a menu entry “Export note as Pdf”
First install the wkhtmltopdf
filter
program: [6]
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf
Then edit the system-wide Thunar configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/xdg/Thunar/uca.xml
Search for </actions>
and replace it
with: [7]
<action> <icon>accessories-text-editor</icon> <name>Tp-Note Export</name> <command>tpnote --export=- %f | sed 's_<_\r<_g' - | wkhtmltopdf --footer-center "[page]/[topage]" -B 2cm -L 2cm -R 2cm -T 2cm - %f.pdf</command> <description>Tp-Note Export</description> <patterns>*.txt; *.md;*.rst;*.adoc;*.txtnote</patterns> <text-files/> </action> </actions>
The change becomes effective only after the user deletes his
own configuration file in
~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
:
killall thunar rm ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml thunar
Pcmanfm is the default file manager in Lubuntu and in Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi.
Create the configuration file:
sudo nano /usr/local/share/file-manager/actions/tpnote.desktop
with the following content:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Action Name[en]=Tp-Note Tooltip=Tp-Note Icon=package-x-generic Profiles=profile-zero; [X-Action-Profile profile-zero] Name[en]=Default profile Exec=tpnote %f
The above creates the custom context menu item Tp-Note.
Create the configuration file:
sudo nano /usr/local/share/file-manager/actions/tpnote-view.desktop
with the following content:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Action Name[en]=Tp-Note View Tooltip=Tp-Note View Icon=package-x-generic Profiles=profile-zero; [X-Action-Profile profile-zero] Name[en]=Default profile Exec=tpnote -v -n %f
The above creates the custom context menu item Tp-Note View.
The Ncurses library based file manager
MidnightCommander mc
enjoys great popularity among people working on the console.
As Tp-Note stores the note’s content in
UTF-8 encoded plain text, mc
can be used
for full text searches in all note files of a directory. Start
the full text search with the keys [Esc]
[?]
.
The following instructions configure mc
’s
[F3]
-key to open .md
files for viewing. This is where Tp-Note
generates the HTML rendition of the note file and opens the
rendition with the Lynx web browser. The
[Enter]
-key runs
Tp-Note in editing mode.
First install the Midnight Commander and the Lynx web browser:
sudo apt install mc lynx
Edit mc
’s configuration file
/etc/mc/mc.ext
:
sudo nano /etc/mc/mc.ext
Find the following lines (Debian 11+):
shell/i/.md Include=editor
and disable them:
#shell/i/.md # Include=editor
Replace the line default/*
with:
regex/i/.(txt|md|rst|adoc|txtnote)$ Open=tpnote %f View=if HTML=`tpnote -b -n -x - %f`; then (echo $"HTML" | lynx --stdin); else less %f; fi default/*
Restart all instances of mc
:
sudo killall mc mc
To test the configuration, navigate to some
.md
note file and press
[F3]
or [Enter]
.
[1]
Tp-Note is preconfigured to work with many
well-known external text editors: e.g.: code
,
atom
, retext
,
geany
, gedit
,
mousepad
, leafpad
,
nvim-qt
, and gvim
under
Linux and notpad++
and
notepad
under Windows. To register your own
text editor, please consult the man-page. For best user
experience, I recommend text editors with internal markup
previewer.
[2] At the moment I do not recommend using Typora because of this bug: Errornous rendering when the value of the last header var is the empty string · Issue #4633 · typora/typora-issues
[3]
The compulsory trailing -
separator is not
considered to be part of a sort-tag, although dashes within
the sort-tag are allowed.
[4]
Tp-Note is preconfigured to work
with many well-known external text editors: e.g.:
code
, atom
,
retext
, geany
,
gedit
, mousepad
,
leafpad
,
nvim-qt
, and
gvim
under Linux and
notpad++
and
notepad
under Windows. To register
your own text editor, please consult the man-page. For
best user experience, I recommend text editors with
internal markup previewer.
[5]
Tp-Note is preconfigured to work
with many well-known external text editors: e.g.:
code
, atom
,
retext
, geany
,
gedit
, mousepad
,
leafpad
,
nvim-qt
, and
gvim
under Linux and
notpad++
and
notepad
under Windows. To register
your own text editor, please consult the man-page. For
best user experience, I recommend text editors with
internal markup previewer.
[6]
In order to get the page number rendered in Debian Buster,
you need to upgrade the package
wkhtmltopdf
: first remove the current
version:
sudo apt remove --purge wkhtmltopdf
,
download:
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.buster_amd64.deb
and install the new version:
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6-1.buster_amd64.deb
[7]
The sed
filter is a workaround of a
bug
in wkhtmltopdf. Once this is solved, you can remove
the sed
command. Then the line 4 of the
above listing becomes:
<command>tpnote --export=- %f | wkhtmltopdf --footer-center "[page]/[topage]" -B 2cm -L 2cm -R 2cm -T 2cm - %f.pdf</command>