Can you share your template?
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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2022 22:13:13
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Betreff: Re: help with command to use latex template

Again, it is a TeX error, and it definitely says that you are not using xelatex. The template, in itself, does not determine what engine you use. Did you specify --pdf-engine=xelatex in the call for pandoc?

Le Wednesday 09 February 2022 à 12:24:30PM, -william- a écrit :
> Thanks, but I still need help. I created another template using the xelatex
> engine. Typeset console shows "preloaded format=xelatex." I selected TeX and
> DVI to typeset it. There were no problems, and the PDF Viewer showed me exactly
> what I asked for.
>
> When I ask Pandoc to use **my** template--not pandoc's default template--it
> gives me an error , and states: You must change your typesetting engine to,
> e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex" instead of "latex" or "pdflatex".
>
> I **did** use xelatex; I did **not** use latex or pdflatex. So, it seems to me
> that Pandoc does not recognize my template. How do I get Pandoc to use my
> template?
>
> On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 2:35:18 AM UTC-8 Joost wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, at 03:32, -william- wrote:
> > MacOS 12.2
> > TexShop v.4.68
> >
> > I have a template.tex file created in the xelatex program.
>
> Note that the tex template that pandoc uses is *not* a normal .tex file.
> It's a template file with a format that's specific to pandoc. See <[1]
> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#template-syntax> for details.
>
> That being said, using pandoc won't give you the most faithful conversion
> to pdf of your docx document. Word itself can convert to pdf and IIUC
> Acrobat can do so, as well. Using Powershell on Windows, it's also possible
> to script the conversion so you don't have to open the file in Word and
> convert manually.
>
> But perhaps you already know all that and have good reasons to use Pandoc.
> :-)
>
>
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