How to make Arabic PDFs with Markdown and pandoc

Here&rsquo;s one way to write Arabic articles in Markdown format and typeset them as PDF files. This assumes you&rsquo;re using Linux or a similar environment, and are comfortable with the command line. The basic idea is to to use pandoc to convert the Markdown to $\mathrm{\LaTeX}$ markup, and tell pandoc to run LuaTeX to generate the PDF. &#xA; You&rsquo;ll need: &#xA; &#xA; A Markdown editor…