Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

['Marek Stepanek' via pandoc-discuss]

Hello all,

Cyrillic characters are rendered normally. Only the italic and bold fonts are in normal fonts. 

Probably this is more a LaTeX question. In my texts I am inserting citations with \foreignlanguage{russian}{Cyrillic text} working fine. Longer paragraphs I change the language in a LaTeX environment (?) like follows:

```{=latex}

\selectlanguage{russian}

```

So my question is: how to change the default character of Pandoc in Russian environments with bold fonts. 


Best greetings to all


marek

Re: Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

[John MacFarlane]

Are you using xelatex, lualatex, or pdflatex?
How are you setting up fonts for Cyrillic?

> On Oct 23, 2022, at 1:39 AM, 'Marek Stepanek' via pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Cyrillic characters are rendered normally. Only the italic and bold fonts are in normal fonts. 
> 
> Probably this is more a LaTeX question. In my texts I am inserting citations with \foreignlanguage{russian}{Cyrillic text} working fine. Longer paragraphs I change the language in a LaTeX environment (?) like follows:
> 
> ```{=latex}
> 
> \selectlanguage{russian}
> 
> ```
> 
> So my question is: how to change the default character of Pandoc in Russian environments with bold fonts. 
> 
> 
> Best greetings to all
> 
> 
> marek
> 
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Re: Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

['Marek Stepanek' via pandoc-discuss]

Thank you John for your answer.

I am using pdflatex and no definition of any fonts. I am using the default fonts - and this is certainly the problem:


```
---
documentclass: scrartcl
fontsize: 12pt
pagesize: a4paper
colorlinks: red
urlcolor: mygray
header-includes:
- \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
- \newcommand{\HRule}{\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.2mm}\end{center}}
- \newenvironment{itquote}{\begin{quote}\itshape}{\end{quote}\ignorespacesafterend}
- \newenvironment{itpars}{\par\itshape}{\par}
- \newenvironment{largecite}{\par\large\color{mygray}}{\par}
- \newenvironment{largecite2}{\par\large\itshape\color{mygray}}{\par}
- \usepackage{longtable}
- \usepackage{graphicx}
- \usepackage{booktabs}
- \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
- \usepackage[russian,english,french,main=ngerman]{babel}
 etc etc
```

My Makefile:

all: save typeset open

.PHONY: all
save:
	w

typeset:
	pandoc                          	     				 \
	  --from         markdown       	     				 \
	  --to           latex	          	     				 \
	  --out			 important_txt23.pdf					 \
	  --pdf-engine 	 pdflatex								 \
	  --bibliography important_txt23.bib 			 		 \
	  --citeproc							 				 \
	  --csl 		 csl/din-1505-2-numeric-alphabetical.csl \
	  --lua-filter   pandoc-gls.lua			 				 \
	  important_txt23.md

open:
	open important_txt23.pdf


Thx again 


marek



> On 24. Oct 2022, at 06:09, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Are you using xelatex, lualatex, or pdflatex?
> How are you setting up fonts for Cyrillic?
> 
>> 

Re: Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

[John MacFarlane]

Try using `--pdf-engine=xelatex` and adding `maintfont:` to your metadata, specifying a font with good Cyrillic support. 
You could also try using L[aTEX commands that set a special font just for Cyrillic, e.g. (untested)

\newfontfamily\cyrillicfont[Script=Cyrillic]{Times New Roman}


> On Oct 24, 2022, at 12:51 AM, 'Marek Stepanek' via pandoc-discuss <pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you John for your answer.
> 
> I am using pdflatex and no definition of any fonts. I am using the default fonts - and this is certainly the problem:
> 
> 
> ```
> ---
> documentclass: scrartcl
> fontsize: 12pt
> pagesize: a4paper
> colorlinks: red
> urlcolor: mygray
> header-includes:
> - \setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
> - \newcommand{\HRule}{\begin{center}\rule{0.5\linewidth}{0.2mm}\end{center}}
> - \newenvironment{itquote}{\begin{quote}\itshape}{\end{quote}\ignorespacesafterend}
> - \newenvironment{itpars}{\par\itshape}{\par}
> - \newenvironment{largecite}{\par\large\color{mygray}}{\par}
> - \newenvironment{largecite2}{\par\large\itshape\color{mygray}}{\par}
> - \usepackage{longtable}
> - \usepackage{graphicx}
> - \usepackage{booktabs}
> - \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
> - \usepackage[russian,english,french,main=ngerman]{babel}
> etc etc
> ```
> 
> My Makefile:
> 
> all: save typeset open
> 
> .PHONY: all
> save:
> 	w
> 
> typeset:
> 	pandoc                          	     				 \
> 	  --from         markdown       	     				 \
> 	  --to           latex	          	     				 \
> 	  --out			 important_txt23.pdf					 \
> 	  --pdf-engine 	 pdflatex								 \
> 	  --bibliography important_txt23.bib 			 		 \
> 	  --citeproc							 				 \
> 	  --csl 		 csl/din-1505-2-numeric-alphabetical.csl \
> 	  --lua-filter   pandoc-gls.lua			 				 \
> 	  important_txt23.md
> 
> open:
> 	open important_txt23.pdf
> 
> 
> Thx again 
> 
> 
> marek
> 
> 
> 
>> On 24. Oct 2022, at 06:09, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Are you using xelatex, lualatex, or pdflatex?
>> How are you setting up fonts for Cyrillic?
>> 
>>> 
> 
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Re: Bold Type in Cyrillic not working in Markdown to PDF

['Marek Stepanek' via pandoc-discuss]

Thank you John for your answer. I am unable to implement your advices. I put up a little minimal (non) working example like follows:

***
---
documentclass: scrartcl
fontsize: 12pt
pagesize: a4paper
# maintfont: "Times New Roman"
colorlinks: red
urlcolor: mygray
header-includes:
- \usepackage{graphicx}
- \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
- \usepackage[russian,english,french,main=ngerman]{babel}
# - \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
# - \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
- \usepackage{xcolor}
- \usepackage{lscape}
- \definecolor{mygray}{gray}{.45}
include-before:
- \tableofcontents
- \bigskip
---

# Wir, Russen, haben zwei Heimaten: unser Russland und Europa.

```{=latex}
\selectlanguage{english}
```

Chapters in Cyrillic are not bold. Text between two asterisks are not rendered bold. Could somebody help me out?

I tried with 

```
	  --pdf-engine 	 xelatex								 \
```

Second Question: how to comment out lines in a Makefile?

Thank you for your help!

```{=latex}
\selectlanguage{russian}
% \newfontfamily\cyrillicfont[Script=Cyrillic]{Times New Roman}
```
# У нас, у русских, две Родины – наша Россия и Европа.

**Выхожу один я на дорогу;**\newline
Сквозь туман кремнистый путь блестит;\newline
Ночь тиха. Пустыня внемлет богу,\newline
И звезда с звездою говорит.
***

Makefile

***
all: save typeset open

.PHONY: all
save:
	w

typeset:
	pandoc                          	     				 \
	  --from         markdown       	     				 \
	  --to           latex	          	     				 \
	  --out			 mwe_cyrillic_bold.pdf					 \
	  --pdf-engine 	 pdflatex								 \
	  mwe_cyrillic_bold.md

open:
	open mwe_cyrillic_bold.pdf
***

Greetings 


marek



> On 24. Oct 2022, at 19:30, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Try using `--pdf-engine=xelatex` and adding `maintfont:` to your metadata, specifying a font with good Cyrillic support. 
> You could also try using L[aTEX commands that set a special font just for Cyrillic, e.g. (untested)
> 
> \newfontfamily\cyrillicfont[Script=Cyrillic]{Times New Roman}
> 
> 

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