Useful when you need to generate a bunch of documents following a similar template.

I use this to generate the Memorandum Of Understanding for my customers when I deliver private training.

This is how I use it:

1. cp sample.yaml my-customer-name.yaml
2. vim my-customer-name.yaml
3. Edit YAML
4. make
5. After file my-customer-name.pdf is generated, review it, print/send it as necessary
6. PROFIT!

The file mou.j2 is basically Markdown with Jinja2 tags in it. We use j2cli to render that template to "pure" Markdown. Then we use markdown2 to render that markdown to HTML. Finally we use weasyprint to render that HTML to PDF. Voilà!

It's using a few Python dependencies. I recommend that you have Python and pip installed, then install the dependencies with pip install --user -r requirements.txt. If you want to manage the dependencies in a different way or use a container or whatever, you absolutely can!

You will probably want to customize mou.j2 to suit your needs.