newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Simon Ellis]

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Hi all

I'm a new pandoc user and am interested in learning a bit about editing the 
<template.latex> file to design my pdf outputs (from markdown) a little 
differently. 

Can anyone recommend some introductory (ie basic) starting points for 
helping me out? 

To give you an idea of my level, it took me a lot of messing around to 
finally figure out how to create the .pandoc folder in my ~./ dir!

Thanks for any thoughts/recommendations.

Best

Simon

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Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Mark Szepieniec]

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Pandoc only deals with content, so if you're just looking to tweak the
visual layout, you'll need to learn some LaTeX, which is a specialized
system for typesetting documents. There are many guides out there, I've
found http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX to be a great reference, and the
community at tex.stackexchange.com is very helpful for specific questions.

One last thing, in pandoc's template.latex, everything enclosed between $s
relates to pandoc's variables, and pandoc will fill these in before passing
the result to latex.

Hope this helps,

mark


On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Simon Ellis <simonkellis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm a new pandoc user and am interested in learning a bit about editing
> the <template.latex> file to design my pdf outputs (from markdown) a little
> differently.
>
> Can anyone recommend some introductory (ie basic) starting points for
> helping me out?
>
> To give you an idea of my level, it took me a lot of messing around to
> finally figure out how to create the .pandoc folder in my ~./ dir!
>
> Thanks for any thoughts/recommendations.
>
> Best
>
> Simon
>
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Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Simon Ellis]

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Thanks Mark
Much obliged.
I'm certainly aware that pandoc just deals with content but was hoping that 
someone might point me in the direction of starting to deal with LaTeX.
Thanks for the template tip.
Best wishes.
Simon

On Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:30:11 PM UTC, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
>
> Pandoc only deals with content, so if you're just looking to tweak the 
> visual layout, you'll need to learn some LaTeX, which is a specialized 
> system for typesetting documents. There are many guides out there, I've 
> found http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX to be a great reference, and the 
> community at tex.stackexchange.com is very helpful for specific questions.
>
> One last thing, in pandoc's template.latex, everything enclosed between $s 
> relates to pandoc's variables, and pandoc will fill these in before passing 
> the result to latex.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> mark
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Simon Ellis <simon...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm a new pandoc user and am interested in learning a bit about editing 
>> the <template.latex> file to design my pdf outputs (from markdown) a little 
>> differently. 
>>
>> Can anyone recommend some introductory (ie basic) starting points for 
>> helping me out? 
>>
>> To give you an idea of my level, it took me a lot of messing around to 
>> finally figure out how to create the .pandoc folder in my ~./ dir!
>>
>> Thanks for any thoughts/recommendations.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Simon
>>
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Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[John MacFarlane]

You might try the LaTeX WikiBook:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

+++ Simon Ellis [Dec 07 14 07:50 ]:
>Thanks Mark
>Much obliged.
>I'm certainly aware that pandoc just deals with content but was hoping that
>someone might point me in the direction of starting to deal with LaTeX.
>Thanks for the template tip.
>Best wishes.
>Simon
>
>On Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:30:11 PM UTC, Mark Szepieniec wrote:
>>
>> Pandoc only deals with content, so if you're just looking to tweak the
>> visual layout, you'll need to learn some LaTeX, which is a specialized
>> system for typesetting documents. There are many guides out there, I've
>> found http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX to be a great reference, and the
>> community at tex.stackexchange.com is very helpful for specific questions.
>>
>> One last thing, in pandoc's template.latex, everything enclosed between $s
>> relates to pandoc's variables, and pandoc will fill these in before passing
>> the result to latex.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> mark
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Simon Ellis <simon...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm a new pandoc user and am interested in learning a bit about editing
>>> the <template.latex> file to design my pdf outputs (from markdown) a little
>>> differently.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend some introductory (ie basic) starting points for
>>> helping me out?
>>>
>>> To give you an idea of my level, it took me a lot of messing around to
>>> finally figure out how to create the .pandoc folder in my ~./ dir!
>>>
>>> Thanks for any thoughts/recommendations.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Thøger Emil Rivera-Thorsen]

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With an intermediate LaTeX knowledge, I went about it by simply creating a 
copy of the default template and then using trial and error.
You can get relatively far by this and using a YAML title/metedata black 
rather than the default pandoc title block.

With this, I recently submitted an article to the Astrophysical Journal 
which was 98% (estimated) written in Pandoc's Markdown. 


Den söndagen den 7:e december 2014 kl. 14:47:04 UTC+1 skrev Simon Ellis:
>
> Hi all
>
> I'm a new pandoc user and am interested in learning a bit about editing 
> the <template.latex> file to design my pdf outputs (from markdown) a little 
> differently. 
>
> Can anyone recommend some introductory (ie basic) starting points for 
> helping me out? 
>
> To give you an idea of my level, it took me a lot of messing around to 
> finally figure out how to create the .pandoc folder in my ~./ dir!
>
> Thanks for any thoughts/recommendations.
>
> Best
>
> Simon
>
>

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Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Caleb McDaniel]

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In addition to trial and error, I've also found The Not So Short Introduction to Latex useful as a starter. 

https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf

Caleb McDaniel

Re: newbie – seeking resources for learning about editing LaTeX template for use with pandoc

[Simon Ellis]

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Thanks all for your contributions.
Much to work with here (a lot of which seems a bit beyond my level – but am
happy to try and make errors).
Simon

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Caleb McDaniel <calebmcd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> In addition to trial and error, I've also found The Not So Short
> Introduction to Latex useful as a starter.
>
> https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
>
> Caleb McDaniel
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