#vim !!! :-D

fuck you manu :P
you know what I tried it, just to be sure, I actually like vi interface. But here I was already infected by emacs, I spent like 2 weeks with vim, but it was just a short story you know, I'm already addicted to that fracking emacs machine from hell

if you like hell ... stay with emacs ...
(BTW I wanted to report your message as 'offending' by clicking the triangle up right of your message. because I don't like to be insulted ! asshole ! ;-) mais je sais pas si c'est grave ou pas ? qui déciderait de te bannir ? il arriverait quoi ? tu sais ?)

ha je sais pas, mais il commence à y avoir une bonne équipe de modération je crois. Ha non remarque ça doit être sur framasphère, sur diaspora-fr je sais pas trop mais je crois que Fla est tout seul à gérer (peut être Fla aussi je sais plus)
En l'occurence je crois pas que ça serait pas grave dans la mesure ou le modérateur a de bonnes chances de me connaitre déjà, mais je suppose que j'aurais un MP du gars un truc dans le genre.
Jusqu'ici j'ai jamais vu de mesure de rétorsion sévère du genre fermeture du compte, sauf une fois ou y avait eu une vague de profil soupçonnés d'islamisme radicalisé radical ya quelques années si jme souviens bien.

'slideous' ... then try to find a slideous-to-pdf converter. (I have no idea)

If you have GUI, Libreoffice will convert a doc to pdf. All with easy clickable menus..

thx jim but I went to emacs to centralize this kind of stuff, I indeed use to do lots of pdf producing with libreoffice, but I never liked it actually, too heavy and buggy. And now I put markdown everywhere, I really don"t understand why producing a pdf should be so complicated, it works flawlessly with about any other method (for instance I export from org mode without any problem, but I guess he's using latex directly instead of calling pandoc)

pdf is an extension of ps, as I recall. Emacs should be able to output ps, it is an ancient text formatting standard.

exactly, that problem can only be of the stupid kind..

http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#creating-a-pdf
( from a Startpage search ) (your mileage may vary)

right, I had to get back to pandoc at the command line and found the solution. Of course it's totally disppointing :P

So for the record here is what pandoc says:

pandoc --to pdf input.md
pandoc: Unknown writer: pdf
To create a pdf with pandoc, use the latex or beamer writer and specify
an output file with .pdf extension (pandoc -t latex -o filename.pdf).

OK pandoc, I will do that.
Transposed to emacs pandoc mode, that means setting the name of the output file with pandoc-set-output choosing a ".pdf" extension, and setting the --to option to latex with pandoc-set-write

Final output from emacs:

Running `pandoc --read=markdown --write=latex --output=out.pdf'

And still for the record:
- Mardown minor mode as still automatically associated to .md file
- I added a hook to pandoc-mode in .emacs : (add-hook 'markdown-mode-hook 'pandoc-mode) , so that pandoc-mode is also associated to .md files (so that I finally have access to key bindings like C-c / p to run pandoc)
- now the thing seems to run smoothly with default parameters like --write=native , the "native" stuff being defined in a pandoc config file

a good page on pandoc mode here:
https://joostkremers.github.io/pandoc-mode/

RTFM like always...