Either update to 2.19.2 or add -V boxlinks to your command. 

On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 04:58:27 UTC+3 Siddharth Jain wrote:

here is the full command I am running

pandoc index.md \

-V mainfont="Arial Unicode MS" \

-V colorlinks=true \

-V linkcolor=blue \

-V urlcolor=red \

-V toccolor=gray \

--lua-filter=../filters/diagram-generator.lua --pdf-engine=xelatex -o index.pdf

here is my pandoc version:

➜   pandoc -v
pandoc 2.19
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22.2, texmath 0.12.5.2, skylighting 0.13,
citeproc 0.8.0.1, ipynb 0.2, hslua 2.2.1
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: /Users/sijain2/.local/share/pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2022 John MacFarlane. Web:  https://pandoc.org
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is no
warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

output of pandoc -D latex is attached to this email

I don't have any preamble in my markdown file.

thanks

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