Re: Pandoc crashes when converting from md to pdf directly

[BP Jonsson <bpj-J3H7GcXPSITLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org>]

Den 2016-04-01 kl. 14:07, skrev G B:
> Oddly enough doing pandoc --toc source.md -o out.tex then pandoc --toc
> out.tex -o out.pdf works...
>
> Please help me by telling you how to provide more info so we can get to the
> source of this.

My guess is that there is something in your metadata which changes 
the preamble in some way. The difference is that unlike `pandoc 
--toc source.md -o out.pdf` the command `pandoc --toc source.md -o 
out.tex` creates a .tex file without a preamble, so that when you 
run `pandoc --toc out.tex -o out.pdf` a 'default' preamble without 
any modifications will be used.

First of all try to use XeLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX:

```
pandoc --toc  --latex-engine=xelatex source.md -o out.pdf
```

If you have any language or font-setting stuff in your metadata 
you may have to change those to use polyglossia/fontspec too.


If that doesn't work try doing this

```
pandoc --toc source.md -o out0.tex

pandoc --toc source.md --standalone -o out1.tex

pandoc --toc out0.tex --standalone -o out2.tex
```

then run diff, or since you seem to be on Windows FC, on out1.tex 
and out2.tex. Seeing the differences between the two should give 
you a clue what is going on.

http://www.howtogeek.com/206123/how-to-use-fc-file-compare-from-the-windows-command-prompt/