I specify Times New Roman as my font (on a Mac) and get Classical Attic without any discernible problems as yet with xelatex:

/usr/local/bin/pandoc -f markdown -t latex -V geometry:margin=4cm -V fontsize=12pt -V papersize=a4paper -V documentclass=memoir -V classoption=oneside -V classoption=article -V mainfont='Times New Roman’  --smart --standalone --latex-engine=xelatex

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> On 25 Jan 2017, at 04:53 , John Muccigrosso <jmuccigr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-5, ousia wrote:
> On 01/19/2017 05:08 PM, John Muccigrosso wrote: 
> > I was helping a friend use pandoc to go from markdown to PDF on a Mac. 
> > His problem was that the default PDF output couldn't handle the Greek 
> > characters. 
> > [...] 
> > I'm concluding that the default PDF output font (Latin Modern Roman?) 
> > doesn't have these characters, whereas Baskerville (among others) does. 
> 
> Sorry for my delayed reply, John. 
> 
> The Latin Modern typeface only contains Latin glyphs. 
> 
> > Is this right? Is there another way to solve this within the default setup? 
> 
> https://cm-unicode.sf.net <https://cm-unicode.sf.net/> contains Computer Modern fonts in OpenType 
> format. The following should work: 
> 
>     \setmainfont{CMU Serif} 
> 
> Even defining a fallaback font for Greek characters should be easy with 
> fontspec. But I haven’t used LaTeX for years and I don’t remember how to 
> do it. 
>  
> Thanks. I found them here: http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net 
> 
> It looks like the CMU Serif is (nearly) identical to Latin Modern Roman.
> 
> I have a default.latex that sets my own fonts, but I think I'll modify it to be sensitive to main font being set in the YAML.
> 
> 
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