Custom LaTeX Template.

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The fontsize and lineheight values don't work. What am I doing wrong?

pandoc \ -V fontsize:24pt -V lineheight:48pt \ -V geometry:paperwidth=6.25in -V geometry:paperheight=9.25in \ -V geometry:margin=1in \ quill/script_final.md -o quill/script_final.pdfThe command you're using is invoking pandoc to convert a Markdown file to a PDF. The -V or --variable options are used to pass options to the underlying LaTeX engine that pandoc uses to create the PDF.

To change the font size and line height, you can define them in the LaTeX template that pandoc uses. However, pandoc doesn't support the fontsize and lineheight variables directly in the command line arguments.

Here's an example of how you could achieve the desired results:

1. Create a new LaTeX template based on the default template that pandoc uses. You can get the default template by running:

   pandoc -D latex > mytemplate.tex
   

2. Open mytemplate.tex in a text editor. Add the following lines somewhere in the preamble (the area before \begin{document}):

   \usepackage{setspace}
   \fontsize{24pt}{30pt}\selectfont
   \setstretch{1.5}
   

   Here, 24pt is the font size and 30pt is the baseline-skip (this affects line spacing). \setstretch{1.5} sets the line spacing to 1.5 (or 150%).

3. Save and close the file.

4. Now you can use this new template with pandoc:

   pandoc \
     --template=mytemplate.tex \
     -V geometry:paperwidth=6.25in -V geometry:paperheight=9.25in \
     -V geometry:margin=1in \
     quill/script_final.md -o quill/script_final.pdf
   

This method gives you a lot of flexibility to customize the appearance of your PDF.What does \selectfont in your example above do?The \selectfont command in LaTeX is used to activate the font size and other font attributes that have been set before it.

LaTeX uses a two-step process for setting the font attributes like the font family, font series, font shape, and font size:

1. The attributes are declared.
2. The attributes are activated with \selectfont.

So, when you see a command like \fontsize{24pt}{30pt}\selectfont, it means the font size is being set to 24pt and the line height (baseline-skip) is being set to 30pt. The \selectfont command is then used to activate these settings.

Without \selectfont, the changes you've declared with \fontsize{24pt}{30pt} won't take effect. The \selectfont command is necessary to tell LaTeX to start using the new settings.

Custom LaTeX Template. created at Tue Jan 20 1970 13:43:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)