Useful Pandoc commands

Description

Useful for converting files from one markup to another (e.g. .tex -> html).

Setup

Homebrew (MacOS & Linux):

brew install pandoc

Examples

Metadata

Insert at top of .md file to give some metadata in the form of a .yml file (without actually creating a .yml file).

---
title: TITLE
author:
- Author
date: \today{}
header: Header
footer: Footer
geometry: margin=3cm
abstract: Enter abstract 
header-includes:
- \usepackage{setspace}
- \doublespacing
- \usepackage{lineno}
- \linenumbers
...

Links

Add some links to the header.

<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://harveybates.xyz/">Home</a> - <a 
href="https://harveybates.xyz/knowledge/index">Back</a></p>

Markdown to html

pandoc -s input.md -c style.css -o output.html --metadata="Title"

LaTeX to markdown

pandoc -s input.tex -o output.text

Markdown to pdf

pandoc -s input.md -o output.pdf

Citations

Define in .bib file.

@article{name2020,
	author={Name, LastName},
	title={Title},
	journal={Journal},
	year={2020},
}

Define in text.

[@name2020]

Compile in terminal.

pandoc -s input.md --bibliography=ref.bib --citeproc -o output.pdf

Figure numbering

Using pandoc-fignos.

Install

python3 -m pip install pandoc-fignos --user

Use

Define figure with caption:

![Caption.](image.png){#fig:Name}

Reference figure with "Fig" extension:

\*@Fig:Name

When compiling use the following tag.

--filter pandoc-fignos

Slide show (beamer)

pandoc -t beamer input.md -o output.pdf
pandoc -t beamer input.tex -o output.pdf

Other

Useful commands can be found on the pandoc site. https://pandoc.org/demos.html

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