I think the color name needs to be capitalized: "Maroon" and not "maroon".
I do that error rather often.

/bpj

Den 8 feb 2017 12:59 skrev "'Norman Dunbar' via pandoc-discuss" <
pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>:

Good Morning all,

I have searched the archives for a solution, I've read the user guide and
googled for help, but to no avail I'm afraid.

My system is as follows:

   - Pandoc version 1.19.1 on Windows 7 64 bit.
   - MiKTeX version 2.9 installed (for pdflatex, latex etc)


When I attempt to run the following command, to convert Markdown to PDF, I
get an illegal color message:

pandoc -f markdown  -o README.pdf README.md --variable papersize=a4
--toc --variable
urlcolor=maroon


The error displayed is:

! LaTeX Error: Undefined color `maroon'.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.152 ...ps://github.com/NormanDunbar/TraceMiner2}

pandoc: Error producing PDF

I tried with all the standard colours mentioned on the page
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors#Predefined_colors as linked from
the Pandoc manual, and only the following (in lowercase) will work:

   - Black
   - Blue
   - Cyan
   - Green
   - Red
   - White
   - Yellow

But the manual states that all of the ones listed will work. All of the
following give the same errors as above:

   - Brown
   - Darkgray
   - Gray
   - LightGray
   - Lime
   - Olive
   - Orange
   - Pink
   - Purple
   - Teal
   - Violet

And I am using the colour names in lower case each time, but I've tried
upper case, mixed case, wrapped in double quotes, single quotes - nothing
appears to have worked.

Appreciate any help, especially pointers to whatever I have missed out
there on the WWW. Thanks.


Cheers,
Norm.



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