On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 11:55:41 AM UTC-4 Hugh Esco wrote:

pandoc 1.19.2.4
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.0.5, texmath 0.9.4.4, skylighting 0.3.3.1
Default user data directory: /home/hesco/.pandoc
Copyright (C) 2006-2016 John MacFarlane
Web: http://pandoc.org

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 11:46:08 AM UTC-4 BPJ wrote:
You probably need to upgrade pandoc.
What does pandoc --version say?

Den mån 16 aug. 2021 17:10Hugh Esco <hre...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
My attempts to test this yield errors looking like this:

```
$ pandoc --defaults `pwd`/defaults --latex-engine=lualatex --template=my_client.latex my_source_file.pdc -o my_result_file.pdf
pandoc: unrecognized option `--defaults'
Try pandoc --help for more information.
```
looking at the --help output yields this:

```
$ pandoc --help | grep default
-D FORMAT             --print-default-template=FORMAT
                        --print-default-data-file=FILE
                        --default-image-extension=extension
```

but no `--defaults` switch. What am I missing here, please?

-- Hugh

On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 4:32:15 AM UTC-4 BPJ wrote:

Den mån 16 aug. 2021 10:25BPJ <b...-J3H7GcXPSITLoDKTGw+V6w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
You use the `mainfont`, `sansfont`, `monofont`, `mathfont`, `CJKmainfont`
variables for the font names and the corresponding `mainfontoptions` etc.
variables. The latter are lists of strings with raw fontspec[^1] options in the format `'Option=Value'` or `'Option={Multi-word value}'`. The
easiest way is to specify them is in a defaults file[^2] like this:

from: markdown
to: latex
pdf-engine: xelatex
variables:
mainfont: Noto Serif
sansfont: Noto Sans
monofont: Noto Mono
monofontoptions:
- 'Scale=MatchLowercase'

For some reason the default latex template[^3] does not contain any
variable for `defaultfontfeatures` but
`\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}` is hard coded. In my custom
template I have added that variable[^4]:

$if(defaultfontfeatures)$
\mainfontfeatures{$for(mainfontfeatures)$$mainfontfeatures$$sep$,$endfor$}
$else$
\defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
$endif$

Sorry, a typo: it should be `defaultfontfeatures` rather than `mainfontfeatures`. That's what happens when you copy the wrong line and use search/replace to make up for it! :-/

Font embedding depends on your XeTeX/LuaTeX settings. Usually it Just Works.

[^1]: https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec

[^2]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#default-files

[^3]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#templates

[^4]: https://git.io/J0UJS

Den mån 16 aug. 2021 06:56Hugh Esco <hre...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
My tests seem to indicate that the fonts which are available to me are a function of the value of the `--latex-engine=` switch.

If I set that switch to pdflatex (which seems to be the default), I can choose any font installed as a .sty file at this path: `/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/`, by setting a value to the fontenc key at the top of my markdown source file.

But I have not been able to sort out how to access other fonts installed at `/usr/share`, by setting the `--latex-engine` to `lualatext` or `xelatex`.

All my tests seem to look alike, and changing my fonts has no impact on how the resulting pdf looks.

Can someone please point me to some documentation which would help me understand how to use the full range of fonts available on this system, suitable for which ever value I set to the `--latext-engine` switch?

Thanks,
-- Hugh Esco

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