Bastien,

I made this call: pandoc 1Letter.docx -f docx -t pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex 
--template=/Users/<home>/.local/share/pandoc/templates/equity.tex -o 
3EELetter.pdf

In return, "Error producing PDF." Nothing more. I am going to post my 
template below, in reply to denis.

Thanks for helping.
-william-

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 1:14:48 PM UTC-8 Bastien Dumont wrote:

> Again, it is a TeX error, and it definitely says that you are not using 
> xelatex. The template, in itself, does not determine what engine you use. 
> Did you specify --pdf-engine=xelatex in the call for pandoc?
>
> Le Wednesday 09 February 2022 à 12:24:30PM, -william- a écrit :
> > Thanks, but I still need help. I created another template using the 
> xelatex
> > engine. Typeset console shows "preloaded format=xelatex." I selected TeX 
> and
> > DVI to typeset it. There were no problems, and the PDF Viewer showed me 
> exactly
> > what I asked for.
> > 
> > When I ask Pandoc to use **my** template--not pandoc's default 
> template--it
> > gives me an error , and states: You must change your typesetting engine 
> to,
> > e.g., "xelatex" or "lualatex" instead of "latex" or "pdflatex".
> > 
> > I **did** use xelatex; I did **not** use latex or pdflatex. So, it seems 
> to me
> > that Pandoc does not recognize my template. How do I get Pandoc to use my
> > template?
> > 
> > On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 2:35:18 AM UTC-8 Joost wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, at 03:32, -william- wrote:
> > > MacOS 12.2
> > > TexShop v.4.68
> > >
> > > I have a template.tex file created in the xelatex program.
> > 
> > Note that the tex template that pandoc uses is *not* a normal .tex file.
> > It's a template file with a format that's specific to pandoc. See <[1]
> > https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#template-syntax> for details.
> > 
> > That being said, using pandoc won't give you the most faithful conversion
> > to pdf of your docx document. Word itself can convert to pdf and IIUC
> > Acrobat can do so, as well. Using Powershell on Windows, it's also 
> possible
> > to script the conversion so you don't have to open the file in Word and
> > convert manually.
> > 
> > But perhaps you already know all that and have good reasons to use 
> Pandoc.
> > :-)
> > 
> > 
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