Hi Russ,<div><br></div><div>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?&nbsp;</div><div>Latex is compilable directly to pdf and almost certainly will generate better pdf than pandoc.&nbsp;<br></div><div><br></div><div>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:</div><div><br></div><div><ol><li>Elegant mathematics</li><li>An extensive bibliography/citation system</li><li>The ability to natively generate graphics using Tikz/Pgm.</li></ol><div>I've also found an excellent, free tool for converting latex docs to html:&nbsp;<a href="https://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/">LaTeXML</a>. It automagically handles citations. It is even capable of translating many tikz illustrations to html, e.g. several of the examples&nbsp;<a href="https://texample.net/tikz/examples/">here</a>.</div></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>--Randy</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Friday, May 14, 2021 at 5:22:02 PM UTC-4 rurq...@d2iq.com wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I found several items on the web about customizing my pdf output from Pandoc.</div><div><br></div><div>I am calling pandoc with the following parameters:</div><div><br></div><div>     pandoc *.md -H seccolor.tex -o test_doc.pdf --table-of-contents --number-sections --indented-code-classes=javascript --highlight-style=monochrome -V mainfont=&quot;Palatino&quot; -V documentclass=report -V papersize=A5 -V geometry:margin=1in -V monofont=&quot;Courier&quot; --pdf-engine=xelatex<br><br>The seccolor.tex file is:<br><br>    \usepackage{titlesec}</div><div>\definecolor{DPurple}{rgb}{.75,.52,.153}</div><div>\titleformat*{\section}{\color{DPurple}}</div><div>% \sectionfont{\color{DPurple}}<br><br>When i run the command i get:<br><br><div>Error producing PDF.</div><div>! LaTeX Error: File `titlesec.sty&#39; not found.</div><div><br></div><div>Type X to quit or &lt;RETURN&gt; to proceed,</div><div>or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)</div><div><br></div><div>Enter file name: </div><div>! Emergency stop.</div><div>&lt;read *&gt; </div><div>         </div><div>l.98 \definecolor<br><br>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.<br><br>Can anyone suggest how I can fix this?<br><br>Thanks,</div></div><div><br></div><div>Russ</div></blockquote></div>

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