How to convert Markdown into inline-styled HTML

I needed to get some Markdown into inline-styled HTML for my work's blog today, was surprised I couldn't find any straightforward guides. Well folks, here we are:

1. generate your CSS with Pygmentize
2. pandoc your markdown with that css
3. use premailer or something to inline css styles
4. remove class attributes if your CMS removes all attributes when there are class attributes
5. put it in your pasteboard

pygmentize -S default -f html > default.css
pandoc input.md > intermediate.html -c default.css
python -m premailer -f intermediate.html -o output.html
sed -i -E 's/class="[^"]*"//g' output.html
cat output.html | pbcopy

…and that’s how you get from normal Markdown to inlined-styled HTML for your CMS or whatever the hell.

Thanks to my coworker and @rightfold for the tip.

As a bash script gist here:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]
then
  echo "Supply an input markdown file for this script to work."
  exit 1
fi
input="$1"
output="$1-output.html"
rm $output*
pygmentize -S default -f html > default.css
pandoc $1 > intermediate.html -c default.css
python -m premailer -f intermediate.html -o $output
sed -i -E 's/class="[^"]*" //g' $output
rm intermediate.html
cat $output | pbcopy