Re: Available default fonts in a factory pandoc/latex Docker image?

[BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Reading the relevant parts of the manual should clear things up:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--defaults

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#default-files

I always use XeLaTeX but I think that fontfamily should go in the metadata
section of a defaults file:

``````yaml
metadata:
  fontfamily: whatever
  fontfamilyoptions:
    - 'option=value'
``````

Using XeLaTeX (`pdf-engine: xelatex` in a defaults file or
`--pdf-engine=xelatex` on the command line) along with `mainfont:
Helvetica` would probably solve your problem instantly provided the system
in your docker image has this font installed (or you might install Noto
Sans as a very good alternative if a free Helvetica OTF/TTF version isn't
available). However XeLaTeX is considerably slower than pdfLaTeX which may
matter if you are serving this live.


Den tis 6 juli 2021 23:51Shakr Maker <shakrmaker-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> Hi John, Pedro,
>
> Where (in what file) are you defining this yaml when you get your
> Helvetica result? Are you adding this yaml to your .md file? Or some other
> file? How are you calling it and with what arg?
> ---
> fontfamily: helvet
> ...
>
> I've tried passing it in as *-d* (which it apparently isn't, based on
> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#default-files)
> I've tried using *--metadata-file* (which it perhaps isn't and appears to
> ignore https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--metadata-file)
> I've tried passing it in as a sequential yaml file per (
> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block)
> And I earlier tried the straight argument without the yaml, *-V
> fontfamily=helvet*
>
> None of them work. I still don't get Helvetica.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
>
>
> On Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 11:56:24 AM UTC-4 John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>>
>> I do get Helvetica font when I try this (pandoc test.md -o test.pdf).
>>
>> "Pedro P. Palazzo" <pedro....-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>> > OK, there's something weird going on with Pandoc (not the Docker
>> image). I created a test file with the following in the front matter:
>> >
>> > ---
>> > fontfamily: helvet
>> > header-includes:
>> > - \renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}
>> > ---
>> >
>> > If I run `pandoc -o myfile.pdf`, it does NOT use Helvetica. However, if
>> I run `pandoc -o myfile.tex` and then `pdflatex myfile`, the document DOES
>> come out in Helvetica. Not sure where to go from here, though.
>>
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