Thanks gnpan!

Got it to work. I have a few more pesky questions, but I'll ask them one at a time.

Much appreciate your help.

LRP



On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, at 12:59 PM, gnpan wrote:
> You can add extra line spacing between the logo and the title:
> title: |
>   |  ![ ](WGLogo.png)  
>   | 
>   | 
>   | Your Title
> 
> If you could use the titling package, then you could also move the title wherever you wanted, e.g. \setlength{\droptitle}{-8em} to take it up. Not sure why you can't get the wallpaper or titling packages to work, maybe something to do with calling pandoc with makfile - try running pandoc directly as suggested above. 
> 
> On Sunday, 27 December 2020 at 19:13:22 UTC+2 LRP wrote:
>> __
>> Thanks, gnpan,
>> 
>> This worked. But yes. I need more control over placement on page -- mainly positioning from top of page and additional line spacing to title.. I'm experimenting now with other methods suggested in this thread.
>> 
>> I'll report findings.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> LRP
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, at 5:37 AM, gnpan wrote:
>>> Another way, simpler but maybe less flexible is to add this to the YAML:
>>> title: |
>>>   ![ ](WGLogo.png){width=1in}  
>>>   Your title here
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thursday, 24 December 2020 at 21:35:19 UTC+2 the.so...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>> I'm not a LaTeX expert, but I recently used this excerpted bit in a metadata file, and it worked for me.  Your mileage may vary.
>>>> 
>>>> ```
>>>> header-includes: |
>>>>   \usepackage{graphicx}
>>>>   \usepackage{titling}
>>>>   \pretitle{\begin{center}
>>>>     \includegraphics[height=1.25in]{source/full-logo.png}\Huge\vskip 5em}
>>>>   \posttitle{\vfill \color{NavyBlue} \LARGE Long Title of Project
>>>>              \par \large PROJECT \par \normalsize Project Agreement No: XXXX \par \end{center}}
>>>> ```
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Friday, 25 December, 2020 at 12:05:33 am UTC+5:30 gnpan wrote:
>>>>> Hmm, I don't use Makefile so can't be sure what goes wrong - I put all the fontsize, mainfont, geometry, papersize, etc. in the YAML. Try something simple first:
>>>>> Create a test.md file with the following content (or use the attachment):
>>>>> ---
>>>>> date: 24 December 2020
>>>>> header-includes: 
>>>>>   - \usepackage{wallpaper}
>>>>>   - \addtolength{\wpYoffset}{12cm} 
>>>>>   - \ThisCenterWallPaper{1}{WGLogo.png}
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 
>>>>> # Your title
>>>>> 
>>>>> Your text. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then run this command:
>>>>> pandoc --pdf-engine xelatex -o test.pdf test.md
>>>>> 
>>>>> That should work and you can take it on from there. 
>>>>> On Thursday, 24 December 2020 at 19:54:28 UTC+2 LRP wrote:
>>>>>> __
>>>>>> Oops. I forgot to delete two lines in my YAML  file.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> error message now reads:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Error producing PDF.
>>>>>> ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>>>>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>>>> ...                                             
>>>>>>                                                  
>>>>>> l.65 \usepackage
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here's YAML file:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> date: December 23, 2020
>>>>>> header-includes:
>>>>>>    - \usepackage{wallpaper}
>>>>>>    - \ThisCenterWallPaper{1}{WGLogo.png}
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Here's -how I call pandoc in Makefile:
>>>>>>        pandoc \
>>>>>>                 --top-level-division=chapter  \
>>>>>>                 --variable mainfont="DejaVu Sans" \
>>>>>>                 --variable monofont="DejaVu Sans Mono" \
>>>>>>                 --variable fontsize=11pt \
>>>>>>                 --variable geometry:"top=1in, bottom=2in, left=1in, right=1in" \
>>>>>>                 --variable geometry:a4paper \
>>>>>>                 --table-of-contents \
>>>>>>                 --number-sections \
>>>>>>                 -f markdown  $< \
>>>>>>                 --pdf-engine=pdflatex \
>>>>>>                 -o $@
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> LRP
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Lloyd R. prentice wrote:
>>>>>>> Thanks. But I get this feedback:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [WARNING] Could not fetch resource 'WritersglenLogo_Color.png': replacing image with description
>>>>>>> [WARNING] Could not fetch resource 'WritersglenLogo_Color.png': replacing image with description
>>>>>>> Error producing PDF.
>>>>>>> ! Package pdftex.def Error: File `WritersglenLogo\T1\textunderscoreColor.png' n
>>>>>>> ot found: using draft setting.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation.
>>>>>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Here's m YAML declaration:
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>> date: December 23, 2020
>>>>>>> header-includes:
>>>>>>>    - \usepackage{wallpaper}
>>>>>>>    - \ThisCenterWallPaper{1}{WGLogo.png}
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And here's my source directory:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 25516 Aug  1 00:31 WGLogo.png
>>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lloyd lloyd   871 Dec 24 12:23 Writersglen.md
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> LRP
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020, at 9:43 AM, gnpan wrote:
>>>>>>>> You could use the wallpaper package (https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/wallpaper/wallpapermanual.pdf).
>>>>>>>> Put the following in your YAML block:
>>>>>>>> header-includes: 
>>>>>>>>   - \usepackage{wallpaper}
>>>>>>>>   - \addtolength{\wpYoffset}{12cm} 
>>>>>>>>   - \ThisCenterWallPaper{1}{logo.png}
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Change logo.png to whatever you logo is called (make sure it's in the same folder as your txt file) and adjust the Y offset to a value that gets the logo in the required position. You can also change the scale factor {1}. 
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, 23 December 2020 at 23:38:58 UTC+2 LRP wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'd like to center a logo before the title on my PDF title page.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I found a recipe on the web using \usepackage{titling} in the metadata, but it failed. Can some kind soul show me how?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> LRP
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