Created the marktex script

compile.sh

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+# /bin/bash
+notforconversion="readme.md"
+echo $notforconversion is excluded from the conversion
+markdownfiles=$(find ./ -iname "*.md" -and ! -name $notforconversion)
+echo Trying to convert: $markdownfiles
+for markdownfile in $markdownfiles; do
+	latextarget="$(echo $markdownfile | sed -e 's/.md/.tex/')"
+	if [ $latextarget -ot $markdownfile ]; then
+		latextarget="$(echo $markdownfile | sed -e 's/.md/.tex/')"
+		pandoc -f markdown -t latex $markdownfile >>$latextarget
+	echo "converted" $markdownfile "to" $latextarget
+	else
+		echo $markdownfile did not need converting as $latextarget is newer
+	fi
+done
+echo "done"

readme.md

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+# marktex
+This is a small tool that writes converts all the markdown files in this folder to
+a LaTeX .tex files with the corresponding name. It will not convert the readme.md file