Re: Markdown to PDF via TeX: Tyring to change section title color

[Randy Yates <yates-EkmVulN54Sk@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Russ,

I hope you don't resent these thoughts since they do not solve your problem 
directly, but may I ask why you are trying to go from markdown to latex to 
pdf? 
Latex is compilable directly to pdf and almost certainly will generate 
better pdf than pandoc. 

Don't use markdown as your source document format. Latex's capabilities for 
generating rich output are far, far greater than markdown, which can't even 
generate numbered section headers. Latex also offers:


   1. Elegant mathematics
   2. An extensive bibliography/citation system
   3. The ability to natively generate graphics using Tikz/Pgm.

I've also found an excellent, free tool for converting latex docs to html: 
LaTeXML <https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/>. It automagically handles 
citations. It is even capable of translating many tikz illustrations to 
html, e.g. several of the examples here 
<https://texample.net/tikz/examples/>.

So in general, choose a source document format that's the least "lossy" in 
terms of typographical capability, then translation to other formats incurs 
the least loss possible.

--Randy

On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 5:22:02 PM UTC-4 rurq...-Zl5T1cyB3pc@public.gmane.org wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I found several items on the web about customizing my pdf output from 
> Pandoc.
>
> I am calling pandoc with the following parameters:
>
>      pandoc *.md -H seccolor.tex -o test_doc.pdf --table-of-contents 
> --number-sections --indented-code-classes=javascript 
> --highlight-style=monochrome -V mainfont="Palatino" -V documentclass=report 
> -V papersize=A5 -V geometry:margin=1in -V monofont="Courier" 
> --pdf-engine=xelatex
>
> The seccolor.tex file is:
>
>     \usepackage{titlesec}
> \definecolor{DPurple}{rgb}{.75,.52,.153}
> \titleformat*{\section}{\color{DPurple}}
> % \sectionfont{\color{DPurple}}
>
> When i run the command i get:
>
> Error producing PDF.
> ! LaTeX Error: File `titlesec.sty' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>
> Enter file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> <read *> 
>          
> l.98 \definecolor
>
> Should i be using another style? I WAS able to generate a standard PDF, 
> but just wanted to add a splash of color. From what I read, this snippet of 
> TeX should work.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I can fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russ
>

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