To build pdfs of the docs you can use pandoc. On osx install:
brew install pandoc```
Now install tex
brew install basictex
Install the mermaid folter
npm i -g mermaid-filter
As an example, run:
pandoc -F mermaid-filter conda_build.md -o conda_build.pdf -V papersize:a4 --highlight-style pygments
Once the dependencies are install you can run the build script build.sh
Else you can view the docs in vscode.