Re: Going round in circles with latex output

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

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You need  the --latex-engine=xelatex option.


tis 6 juni 2017 kl. 07:53 skrev Lyndon Drake <lyndon-S8RYeTzMgQ3QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>:

> Hi all,
>
> Many apologies as I'm sure this is all obvious once one knows, but I'm a
> bit stuck. I've got some Pandoc Markdown files which I'm trying to convert
> to PDF using Pandoc. They include various non-ascii characters, all in
> unicode. If I run:
>
> /usr/local/bin/pandoc -f
> markdown+pipe_tables+grid_tables+yaml_metadata_block --filter
> pandoc-citeproc --filter pandoc-csv2table -s -o formatted/Draft3.pdf
> text/metadata.yaml text/1-Introduction.md
>
> I get the following:
>
> ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char ṣ (U+1E63)
>
> (inputenc)                not set up for use with LaTeX.
>
>
> See the inputenc package documentation for explanation.
>
> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>
>  ...
>
>
>
> l.125   Vandenhoeck \& Ruprecht, 1990), 39--62.}
>
>
> Try running pandoc with --latex-engine=xelatex.
>
> pandoc: Error producing PDF
>
>
> So the next step was to switch to xelatex based on the helpful suggestion
> from pandoc. As long as I don't try to use any babel or polyglossia
> environments, or biblatex, this works fine. But as I want to use both, I'm
> a bit stuck. First thing is that it looks like the default template tries
> to use babel rather than polyglossia if xetex is the engine. Is there a
> reason for this? (I want to use the biblatex-sbl style for my bibliography,
> and they recommend polyglossia.)
>
> I want to use English (UK) as my main language, with Hebrew and Syriac as
> other languages (I've also got some ancient Greek, but the main font I've
> chosen works fine and the output looks good for that without using a
> separate language environment).
>
> As a starting point, what language options do I set in my YAML metadata to
> enable those other two language environments, and how do I specify the
> fonts for them?
>
> Here's my YAML metadata file so far:
>
> ---
>   author: Lyndon Drake
>   documentclass: memoir
>   toc: true
>   papersize: a4
>   fontsize: 12pt
>   top-level-division: chapter
>   number-sections: true
>   mainfont: Skolar PE Light
>   mainfontoptions: Numbers=OldStyle
>   bibliography: /Users/lyndon/Documents/Media/Bibliography/0lib.bib
>   csl:
> /Users/lyndon/Documents/Media/Bibliography/society-of-biblical-literature-fullnote-bibliography.csl
>   notes-after-punctuation: true
> ---
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help on this,
> Lyndon
>
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