Getting started

Getting started

[Michael Lipp]

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(I *did* search the web for two hours...)

It shouldn't be that difficult to get started with pandoc, right? Well it 
is. I tried the progit example and TeX says that it cannot find font 
Helvetica. I tried another example from the web and TeX says it cannot find 
font Palatino. I've installed texlive-full on Fedora (that's 4 GB and 
specifically inludes a package "texlive-palatino"). 

Do I really have to understand all about TeX fonts before using pandoc? 
From my google results (barely understandable to the uninitiated), this 
looks like a several week's effort. That's about the time I wanted to spend 
on the document. Am I too stupid and should simply stick to LibreOffice?

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Re: Getting started

[Bastien DUMONT]

If you are not familiar with LaTeX, I would advise to begin with the most simple command:

pandoc my-doc.odt -o my-doc.pdf

(I suppose that you convert from ODT, but that does not really matter.)

Then, you can try the variables and options for LaTeX documented in the manual to customize the layout of your document.

As for the fonts, you can use --pdf-engin=lualatex and the variables mainfont, sansfont, etc., to use any OTF font installed on your system.

Le Friday 07 April 2023 à 05:19:19AM, Michael Lipp a écrit :
> (I *did* search the web for two hours...)
> 
> It shouldn't be that difficult to get started with pandoc, right? Well it is. I
> tried the progit example and TeX says that it cannot find font Helvetica. I
> tried another example from the web and TeX says it cannot find font Palatino.
> I've installed texlive-full on Fedora (that's 4 GB and specifically inludes a
> package "texlive-palatino"). 
> 
> Do I really have to understand all about TeX fonts before using pandoc? From my
> google results (barely understandable to the uninitiated), this looks like a
> several week's effort. That's about the time I wanted to spend on the document.
> Am I too stupid and should simply stick to LibreOffice?
> 
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