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Customizing preamble.tex in bookdown

I started using bookdown to generate a longer report, but came into some touble as I wanted to customize the pdf output. \documentclass[]{} does not work in the preamble.tex file. I think that comand is somehow executed by pandoc beforhand, unfortunately I did not find out how to pass options to it so far.

I worked around a few things like setting the fontsize via \usepackage[12pt]{moresize} but I was wondering how to acces the set up options properly. The bookdown documentation does not cover this subject in sufficient detail for me to understand.

Solution

  • Look at this BookDown Documentation,

    You can just add following in your header yaml,

    ---
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
---