I'm using the following command to convert 5 files (1 Markdown, 4 HTML) to PDF using Pandoc:
pandoc --toc --latex-engine=xelatex ${SOURCE_DIR}/* -o ${DST_DIR}/${DST}.pdf
It successfully does so, but in whatever order it wants. Is there any way to specify what order these files should be added to the singular PDF file?
It seems to do it alphabetically by file name, so that's a workaround.
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I have a CSV file similar to below:
0,Bob's Business,50 some address,zip,telephone
1,Jill's Business,25 some address,zip,telephone
...
I would like to take this CSV file and have Pandoc produce a markdown file for each line in the CSV file. Each column accessible from a variable to be used in a markdown template file.
Is it possible to load a CSV file and produce markdown/html files in this way?
I can see three ways.
Use a static site generator
I would probably just use a tool like jekyll with its data files.
Alternative 1: Convert to YAML and use pandoc's template engine
Put something like this in mytemplate.md:
$for(data)$
$data$
$endfor$
Convert the csv to a JSON or YAML file
load that file with the --metadata-file option and use the template to render the output:
echo '' | pandoc --metadata-file data.yaml -t markdown --template mytemplate.md -o output.md
Alternative 2: Write a pandoc filter
There are many pandoc filters (like pandoc-placetable or pantable) that read csv and convert it to a pandoc table. But you want to convert it to a pandoc metadata format (which is usually parsed from the YAML frontmatter of markdown files). I guess you could adjust one of those pandoc filters to your purposes.
I wanna generate docx from markdown files ,and insert into the conver picture, From pandoc metada , I can use --epub-cover-image.
My directory :
then command:
pandoc -s a.md b.md c.md -o example.docx --epub-cover-image cover.png
It generate example.docx file, but the cover.png does not insert into the docx file ?
Quoting the pandoc manual section on --epub-cover-image:
Use the specified image as the EPUB cover.
Since you are not generating a EPUB ebook but a docx word file, the option has simply no effect.
I am differentiating two CSV files and generating its output in one html file by using below query:
vimdiff Sheet1.csv Sheet2.csv -c TOhtml -c 'w! CsvResult.html' -c 'qa!'
In above cmd two csv files (sheet1 and sheet2) in my Windows desktop, and CsvResult.html is a file which will show the output of both CSV's in html format.
The HTML file(CsvResult.html) which is generating is not visible properly because of different colors,
How to change generated HTML file FG/BG/Text color ? I tried using cmds for text change but it is not applying with file generated.
I would like to be able to split Pandoc template files into sub files using the \input{path-to-file} in the template file. When I use the \input command, I get the following error message when running pandoc -o output.pdf --template=default.latex --latex-engine=lualatex:
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
How do I properly split pandoc template files?
I think this is not possible to achieve with Pandoc. I choose to switch to Panzer, a project which combines Pandoc with styles.
I want to write an asciidoc document and convert it into a pdf document. However, I want to use a format style different than the default ones. To do so I convert the txt file to docbook using asciidoc and then try to convert the resulting docbook xml to a pdf file using dblatex.
The idea is to set a particular tex style for dblatex to obtain the desired pdf result. I've copied the existing docbook.sty style as it is recommended here to do a small style modification. The only change done in the ./docbook file is \setlength{\textwidth}{18cm} to \setlength{\textwidth}{12cm}. However, when I run the command
dblatex --texstyle=./docbook.sty test.txt
Or the command
dblatex -s ./docbook.sty test.txt
Both produce the same result in the style change: none. I mean, no matter which modification I do to ./docbook.sty file, these modifications are not applied to the output. I obtain always the same result, a pdf with the default formatting. Do you guys have any idea where is the problem?
Thanks in advance.
I would recommend:
Copy the Dblatex docbook.sty to a new filename in your working directory which is "obviously yours" (e.g., mydbstyle.sty).
Continue to supply a full or relative path argument to the --texstyle option (e.g., /path/to/mydbstyle.sty or ./mydbstyle.sty). Failing to do so requires that mydbstyle.sty be in a directory enumerated by the TEXINPUTS environment variable (which you likely have not explicitly set).
Within mydbstyle.sty, use the following directives to initialize your style:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{mydbstyle}[2013/02/15 DocBook Style]
\RequirePackageWithOptions{docbook}
% ...
% your LaTeX commands here
Pass a DocBook 4.5 XML file as an argument to Dblatex (in your example you are passing test.txt which makes me uncertain whether you're passing an AsciiDoc source file).
dblatex --texstyle=./mydbstyle.sty mybook.xml