I started using markdown together with pandoc a few weeks ago. I'm especially fond of the markdown editor writemonkey v.3! I have one slight problem with converting my .md to .pdf, and I it's caused by the first line in my document. The first line in the document (see below) is how you give the document a name in writemonkey.
name: seminarium 1
---
author: my name
date: 22 Augusti 2020
bibliography: testlibrary.bib
geometry:
- top=2.5cm
- bottom=2.5cm
- left=2.5cm
- right=2.5cm
pagesize: a4
font: Times New Roman
fontsize: 12pt
header-includes:
- \usepackage{setspace}
- \setstretch{1.0}
- \pagenumbering{gobble}
---
If I remove this first line, the pandoc conversion works like a charm. Otherwise I get this:
pandoc sem1.md -o sem1.pdf --bibliography library.bib -V lang=sv
Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.78 \usepackage
Now - I realize that I've combined a YAML with LaTex code, I am hoping that my formatting is "bad" and that I might improve it so I don't have to remove the first line every time. Maybe tell Pandoc/LaTex to ignore the first line or make a separate .yaml file would help?
Ok! This what I did. Works great with Writemonkey. Just copy-paste in Notepad and save as a .ps1 file and run in Powershell!
CD C:\Users\username\Desktop\ppp2020 # Filepath of .md, .yaml and .bib
Get-Content cap.md -Encoding UTF8 | Select-Object -Skip 2 | Set-Content cap_temp.md -Encoding UTF8 # Removes the first line (name:) from markdown document
pandoc cap_temp.md default.yaml -o cap.pdf --bibliography library.bib -V lang=sv # converts .md to .pdf
Remove-Item 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\ppp2020\cap_temp.md' # This removes the tempfile