Re: YAML block to carry LaTeX font details -- how do I preserve '{' and ‘}‘ ?

[Rick Dooling <rpdooling-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I don't know. Maybe I'm a simpleton but I would just edit the latex 
templates. I have lots of them. Then you keep your source file clean.

Rick

On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 5:42:50 AM UTC-5, kurt.p...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org 
wrote:
>
> On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 7:15:02 AM UTC+2, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> +++ John MacFarlane [Apr 09 16 19:39 ]: 
>> >See BP Johnson's suggestions (recently in this list) about 
>>
>> BP Jonsson, I mean! 
>>
> Well — and in my OP I meant to say I started to *experiment* (not to 
> *experience*)…     :-)
>
> I'm referring to the technique of defining a macro like 
>>
>>     \newcommand{\wrap}[1]{#1} 
>>
>> and using it to wrap things that you don't want pandoc 
>> interpreting as Markdown. 
>>
> At first I did not understand at all how I should apply this advice to my 
> situation… However, thanks to this tipp and some more experimentation on my 
> part, I found a solution. I’ll document it here in case someone else finds 
> it useful too.
> What I did first (cul-de-sac, not working!) 
>
> I created a file named *wrapmarkdown.tex* with this content:
>
> \makeatletter
>   \newcommand{\wrapmarkdown}[1]{#1}-
> \makeatother
>
> and included it as a parameter into my Pandoc command: -H wrapmarkdown.tex
> .
>
> Into my YAML block I put this modification:
>
>
>
> mainfontoptions:   \wrapmarkdown{BoldFont=WeidemannStd-Bold.otf, ItalicFont=WeidemannBookItalic.otf, BoldItalicFont=WeidemannStd-BoldItalic.otf, ItalicFeatures={Colour=AA0001}, BoldFeatures={Colour=0000
>
> This ended up with a LaTeX output containing this code around line 17:
>
>
>     \setmainfont[\wrapmarkdown{BoldFont=WeidemannStd-Bold.otf,
>        ItalicFont=WeidemannBookItalic.otf, BoldItalicFont=WeidemannStd-BoldItalic.otf,
>        ItalicFeatures={Colour=AA0001}, BoldFeatures={Colour=0000AA},
>        BoldItalicFeatures={Colour=AA00AA}}]{WeidemannBook}
>
> and this code around line 107:
>
> \makeatletter
>   \newcommand{\wrapmarkdown}[1]{#1} 
> \makeatother
>
> When compiling this to PDF, an error occurred:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <argument> ...st ,\l__fontspec_fontopts_clist ,\wrapmarkdown
> {BoldFont=WeidemannStd-Bol...
>
> ...
>
> What I did next (final solution) 
>
> The error message made me move the snippet from around line 107 to lines 
> 2-4 of my generated LaTeX file. The output PDF was created successfully 
> after this modification. 
>
> Therefore I ditched the inclusion of my *wrapmarkdown.tex* file via the -H
> /--include-in-header command line parameter.
>
> Instead I hard-coded the respective lines into a custom LaTeX template, 
> right after its initial lines, and added 
> --template=my-custom-latex-template.latex into the command line.
> Another question… 
>
> I assume there is no way to make -H include a code snippet at a specific 
> spot in the LaTeX header? The problem with my original approach seems to 
> have been that on line 17 the call to the \wrapmarkdown newcommand came 
> *before* its definition on line 107… and that the only workaround was the 
> one I used: to hard-code it into the LaTeX-template at an earlier line?
>
> Would it be feasible to add a variable-based approach into the default 
> Pandoc template, which could be utilized from the command line for cases 
> like this?
> ​
>

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