Welcome to pandoc-latex-fontsize’s documentation!

Installation

pandoc-latex-fontsize is a pandoc filter for modifying font size to Code, CodeBlock, Span, and Div that have speficied classes or latex-fontsize attribute.

Instructions

pandoc-latex-fontsize requires python, a programming language that comes pre-installed on linux and Mac OS X, and which is easily installed on Windows.

Install pandoc-latex-fontsize using the bash command

$ pipx install pandoc-latex-fontsize

To upgrade to the most recent release, use

$ pipx upgrade pandoc-latex-fontsize

pipx is a script to install and run python applications in isolated environments from the Python Package Index, PyPI. It can be installed using instructions given here.

Getting Help

If you have any difficulties with pandoc-latex-fontsize, please feel welcome to file an issue on github so that we can help.

Notes

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• status icon by Just Icon

• code style icon by Google Material Design icons

• size icon by Iconscout

Usage

To apply the filter, use the following option with pandoc:

$ pandoc --filter pandoc-latex-fontsize

Explanation

In the metadata block, specific set of classes can be defined to specify the font size for span, code, div and codeblock elements.

The metadata block add information using the pandoc-latex-fontsize entry by a list of definitions:

pandoc-latex-fontsize:
  - classes: [smallcontent]
    size: tiny
  - classes: [largecontent, important]
    size: huge

The metadata block above is used to set the fontsize:

• to tiny for span, code, div and codeblock elements that have the smallcontent class;

• to huge for span, code, div and codeblock elements that have the largecontent and important classes;

The font size specified must be either:

• Huge

• huge

• LARGE

• Large

• large

• normalsize

• small

• footnotesize

• scriptsize

• tiny

which are the name of LaTeX font sizes.

It’s also possible to set a specific LaTeX font size using the latex-fontsize attribute.

Example

Demonstration: Using pandoc-latex-fontsize-sample.txt as input gives output file in pandoc-beamer-block-sample.pdf.