Re: LaTeX Headers/Macros in pandoc conversion

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

What pandoc version are you using?

`\input` should be supported, but you'd need `header.tex` to be in the
working directory.

You can also try simply putting `header.tex` on the command line:

    pandoc header.tex main.tex

This produces the same output as if you had the contents of
`header.tex` at the beginning of `main.tex`.


+++ Mike Hynes [Jan 09 15 10:27 ]:
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to use pandoc to convert my latex files into other doc types,
>mainly html and doc.
>
>My latex documents generally have the following format:
>
>\input{header}
>\begin{document}
>   body text as usual
>\end{document}
>
>The file header.tex is either contained in the same directory, or in
>~/texmf/tex/latex/headers/. In my headers, I have frequently-used macros
>such as:
>
>\newcommand{\FIG}[3]{
>\begin{figure}[h!]
>\centering
>\includegraphics[width=#2\columnwidth,angle=0]{#1}
>\caption{#3}
>\label{fig:#1}
>\end{figure}
>}
>
>That is, I use almost *no* latex commands in my writing, and make frequent
>use of macros to simplify inclusion tables, figures, algorithms,
>mathematical formulae, etc.
>
>I would like to run pandoc on such documents, but am having trouble. My
>macros are not getting parsed, and when I run pandoc with
>--template=$USER/texmf/tex/latex/report.tex (or with an -H flag), I often
>just have the file echoed back to with, without any conversion of the
>specified input files.
>
>Can someone please direct me to the most efficient way of processing my tex
>files, given their macro-heavy format? I can't seem to find the correct
>flags in the documentation for what I'm trying to do.
>
>Thanks
>
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