I am quite new with Knitr, and I am trying to write my first document "importing" some "\newcommand" from my latex files.
All my "\newcommand" are processed perfectly with the exception of those with "arguments".
For instance I have added the packages I normally use in latex:
header-includes:
-\usepackage{a4wide,amsmath,amsthm,epsfig,graphicx}
- \usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
- \usepackage{amsfonts}
- \usepackage{graphics}
- \usepackage{subfigure}
- \usepackage{dsfont}
- \usepackage{bbm}
- \usepackage{bm}
- \usepackage{xcolor}
- \usepackage{dcolumn}
- \usepackage{pstricks,fancyhdr,fancybox}
- \usepackage{dcolumn}
- \usepackage{bm}
But the following does not work
\newcommand{\PR}[1]{\bm{P}\left\{{#1}\right\}}
The error is
output file: newfile.knit.md
"../Documents/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS newfile.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output newfile.pdf --template "C:\Users\P14814\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in"
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.180 \newcommand{\PR}{[}1{]}\{\bm{P}
pandoc.exe: Error producing PDF
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43
In addition: Warning message:
running command '"../Documents/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS newfile.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output newfile.pdf --template "C:\Users\P14814\Documents\R\win-library\3.4\rmarkdown\rmd\latex\default-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in"' had status 43
Execution halted
Your help is very much appreciated!!
I strongly recommend you to put these commands in an external file, say, preamble.tex, and include it via the includes option.
output:
pdf_document:
includes:
in_header: preamble.tex
See Section 3.3.7.3 of the R Markdown book: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/pdf-document.html
Using header-includes is not entirely safe. Pandoc may mangle certain characters when generating the LaTeX output. If your Pandoc version is higher than 2.0 (check rmarkdown::pandoc_version()), you may use a raw LaTeX block to protect the LaTeX content, e.g.,
header-includes: |
```{=latex}
\usepackage{a4wide,amsmath,amsthm,epsfig,graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm,amssymb}
......
```
Related
I have compiled an Rmd file that should knit to PDF, whereof the code is derived from another model which does knit to pdf. However, with the exact same yaml header parameters, the knitting defaults to HTML instead of pdf for the first model (When clicking 'knit to pdf'. I am using R version 3.6.1.
---
title: "Title"
subtitle: "Subtitle"
author:
- Piet en Henk
date: "`r format(Sys.time(), '%B %d, %Y')`"
abstract: "This document provides the description of the used R code for ...."
geometry: "left=1in, right=1in, top=1in, bottom=1in, headsep=0.4in"
output:
pdf_document:
highlight: zenburn
number_sections: true
toc: true
toc_depth: 2
header-includes:
- \usepackage{eso-pic}
- \usepackage{graphicx}
- \usepackage{transparent}
- \usepackage{fancyhdr}
- \usepackage{datetime}
- \usepackage{hyperref}
- \usepackage{float}
- \usepackage{amsmath}
- \usepackage{courier}
- \usepackage{placeins}
- \pagestyle{fancy}
- \numberwithin{figure}{section}
- \newdateformat{mydate}{\monthname[\THEMONTH] \THEYEAR}
- \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{1pt}
- \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
- \fancyhead[L]{\includegraphics{Company.png}}
- \fancyfoot[RO]{Company}
- \fancyfoot[L]{Version 1.0}
---
```{=latex}
% Trigger ToC creation in LaTeX
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{0.7}\normalsize
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.2}\normalsize
\tableofcontents
```
\pagebreak
And the loggings from the Rmarkdown pane:
processing file: index.Rmd
|......................................................................| 100%
inline R code fragments
output file: index.knit.md
"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS index.knit.md --to html4 --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+tex_math_single_backslash --output index.html --lua-filter "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-36~1.1\library\bookdown\RMARKD~1\lua\CUSTOM~1.LUA" --lua-filter "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-36~1.1\library\RMARKD~1\RMARKD~1\lua\PAGEBR~1.LUA" --lua-filter "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-36~1.1\library\RMARKD~1\RMARKD~1\lua\LATEX-~1.LUA" --metadata-file "C:\Users\mpruijs\AppData\Local\Temp\2\RtmpER5E5P\file2bec2a1279b1" --wrap preserve --standalone --section-divs --table-of-contents --toc-depth 3 --template "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-36~1.1\library\bookdown\TEMPLA~1\GITBOO~1.HTM" --highlight-style pygments --number-sections --css style.css --include-in-header "C:\Users\mpruijs\AppData\Local\Temp\2\RtmpER5E5P\rmarkdown-str2bec4d551488.html" --mathjax
Output created: index.html
Warning message:
In as.POSIXlt.POSIXct(x, tz) : unable to identify current timezone 'C':
please set environment variable 'TZ'
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
Using pandoc, I managed to produce the following output using the YAML prolog.
---
lang: fr
otherlangs: [en]
---
Generates this latex code.
\ifnum 0\ifxetex 1\fi\ifluatex 1\fi=0 % if pdftex
\usepackage[shorthands=off,english,main=french]{babel}
\else
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[]{french}
\setotherlanguage[]{english}
\fi
But, I cannot manage to have it working using the commande-line arguments. This what I tried.
$ pandoc -s -t latex -V lang=fr -V otherlangs="[en]"
Which produces:
\ifnum 0\ifxetex 1\fi\ifluatex 1\fi=0 % if pdftex
\usepackage[shorthands=off,main=french]{babel}
\else
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[]{french}
\fi
Any hints on how I should pass de otherlangs variable from the command line?
AFAIK this is not possible since the -M option (and probably -V as well) parse values
as YAML boolean or string values
and otherlangs needs to be a list. What's your use case?
You shouldn't have to set otherlangs manually as it's extracted from spans and divs with the lang attribute (see the MANUAL), for example:
my [english words]{lang=en} inside a span
::: {lang=en}
followed by a native div (using this syntax since pandoc 2.0)
with another paragraph
:::
If you absolutely must set this info from the command-line, using a custom LaTeX template that contains, say, the following (if you're using Polyglossia/XeLaTeX):
\setotherlanguage[]{$myOtherLangs$}
and calling it with pandoc -V myOtherLangs="english,french" should solve your use-case.
I have tried running the following simple code;
```{r sample}
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
dt <- mtcars[1:5, 1:4]
# LaTeX Table
knitr::kable(dt,format = 'latex')%>%
column_spec(column = 1,width = '10cm',bold = T)
```
This runs fines with the Knit button. but get the following error when using rmarkdown::render();
! Undefined control sequence.
l.173 \centering\rowcolors
pandoc.exe: Error producing PDF
Error: pandoc document conversion failed with error 43
In addition: Warning message:
running command '"C:/Program Files/RStudio/bin/pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS tst.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output tst.pdf --template "C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-34~1.1\library\RMARKD~1\rmd\latex\DEFAUL~3.TEX" --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in"' had status 43
Also note that without the format = 'latex' option it works fine with rmarkdown::render()
I tried the suggestions for similar errors but non of them worked (update Rmarkdown, install MikTex and the pdflatex.exe to path variable). Can someone please help me with this.Thanks
Calling the array package in the YAML worked for me.
header-includes:
- \usepackage{array}
How can I render reST document with \raggedright command applied to all the text if I use pdflatex?
Use a custom template.
In the following example, I'll be using xelatex. I would copy the default template for xelatex from /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/writers/latex2e/xelatex.tex to a file called mytemplate.tex
The default template looks like this:
$head_prefix% generated by Docutils <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/>
% rubber: set program xelatex
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{fontspec}
% \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase}
$requirements
%%% Custom LaTeX preamble
$latex_preamble
%%% User specified packages and stylesheets
$stylesheet
%%% Fallback definitions for Docutils-specific commands
$fallbacks$pdfsetup
$titledata
%%% Body
\begin{document}
$body_pre_docinfo$docinfo$dedication$abstract$body
\end{document}
You could add \raggedright just after \begin{document}.
For rendering the document, I'd use the following commands:
rst2xetex --template=mytemplate.tex --use-latex-docinfo mydoc.rst
xelatex mydoc.tex
xelatex mydoc.tex
rm -f *.out *.aux *.log mydoc.tex
(This is on a UNIX-like operating system.)