I have a markdown + latex document that has compiled fine, until now when I added a special character ('รค') and get the error:
hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid UTF-8 byte sequence)
Following some advice I've found I have tried combinations of these in a custom preamble, but with no success:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % also tried [utf8x]
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
Any suggestions on how to solve this?
The full preamble is:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[a4paper,tmargin=2.5cm,bmargin=2.8cm,lmargin=3.5cm,rmargin=3.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage[all,error]{onlyamsmath}
\MakeRobust{\overrightarrow}
\usepackage{natbib}
\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{11pt}{13.3pt}\selectfont}
pandoc call:
pandoc -f markdown file.mkd -H standard.tex --csl=amnat.csl --bibliography refs.bib -o output.pdf
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I'm trying to convert a latex file to markdown using Pandoc. The latex file contains linked images, for example like this:
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\leavevmode
\scalebox{0.4}{\includegraphics{microsatsFigures/Figure_traceView.png}}
\end{center}
\caption{The Traces view}
\label{traces}
\end{figure}
However in the markdown file all I get is
::: center
:::
Is this a known limitation of Pandoc, or is there some command I'm missing that will convert the image instructions? The command I used in pandoc was just the standard format:
pandoc -f latex -t markdown Inputfile.tex -o Outputfile.md
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}
......
```
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 am using lstlisting command in Latex. I want to use double hyphens "--help", but latex hyphens connects like in normal text (but it is source code) and I can't use "-{}-" for separation.
\begin{lstlisting}
$ oc <command> --help
\end{lstlisting}
Could you help me please?
Thanks
Seeing as you're using a terminal-like code display, consider using a \ttfamily as your basicstyle:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{basicstyle=\ttfamily}
\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}
$ oc <command> --help
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
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.)