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Allows setting the caption justification, as the default is to center figures but left-align captions.
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# Eisvogel
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[](https://travis-ci.org/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template)
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A clean **pandoc LaTeX template** to convert your markdown files to PDF or LaTeX. It is designed for lecture notes and exercises with a focus on computer science. The template is compatible with pandoc 2.
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## Preview
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A custom title page | A basic example page
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[](examples/custom-titlepage/custom-titlepage.pdf) | [](examples/basic-example/basic-example.pdf)
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## Installation
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1. Install pandoc from <http://pandoc.org/>. You also need to install [LaTeX](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installation#Distributions).
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2. Move the template `eisvogel.tex` to your pandoc templates folder and rename the file to `eisvogel.latex`.The location of the templates folder depends on your operating system:
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- Unix, Linux, macOS: `~/.pandoc/templates/`
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- Windows XP: `C:\Documents And Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\pandoc`
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- Windows Vista or later: `C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\pandoc`
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If there are no folders called `templates` or `pandoc` you need to create them and put the template `eisvogel.latex` inside.
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## Usage
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1. Open the terminal and navigate to the folder where your markdown file is located.
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2. Execute the following command
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --from markdown --template eisvogel --listings
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```
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where `example.md` is the markdown file you want to convert to PDF.
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In order to have nice headers and footers you need to supply metadata to your document. You can do that with a [YAML metadata block](http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block) at the top of your markdown document (see the [example markdown file](examples/basic-example/basic-example.md)). Your markdown document may look like the following:
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```markdown
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---
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title: "The Document Title"
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author: [Example Author, Another Author]
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date: 2017-02-20
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tags: [Markdown, Example]
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...
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Here is the actual document text...
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```
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### Custom Template Variables
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This template defines some new variables to control the appearance of the title page. The existing template variables from pandoc are all supported and their documentation can be found in [the pandoc manual](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-for-latex).
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- `titlepage` default=`false`
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turns on the title page when `true`
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- `titlepage-color`
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the background color of the title page. The color value must be given as an HTML hex color like `D8DE2C` without the leading number sign (`#`). When specifying the color in YAML, it is advisable to enclose it in quotes like so `titlepage-color: "D8DE2C"` to avoid the truncation of the color (e.g. `000000` becoming `0`).
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- `titlepage-text-color` default=`5F5F5F`
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the text color of the title page
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- `titlepage-rule-color` default=`435488`
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the color of the rule on the top of the title page
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- `titlepage-rule-height` default=`4`
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the height of the rule on the top of the title page (in points)
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- `caption-justification` default=`raggedright`
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justification setting for captions (uses the `justification` parameter of the [caption](https://ctan.org/pkg/caption?lang=en) package)
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## Examples
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### Numbered Sections
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For PDFs with [numbered sections](http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options-affecting-specific-writers) use the `--number-sections` or `-N` option.
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --number-sections
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```
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### Syntax Highlighting with Listings
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You can get syntax highlighting of delimited code blocks by using the LaTeX package listings with the option `--listings`. This example will produce the same syntax highlighting as in the example PDF.
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --listings
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```
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### Syntax Highlighting Without Listings
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The following examples show [syntax highlighting of delimited code blocks](http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#syntax-highlighting) without using listings. To see a list of all the supported highlight styles, type `pandoc --list-highlight-styles`.
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --highlight-style pygments
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```
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --highlight-style kate
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```
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --highlight-style espresso
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```
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel --highlight-style tango
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```
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### Standalone LaTeX Document
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To produce a standalone LaTeX document for compiling with any LaTeX editor use `.tex` as an output file extension.
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.tex --template eisvogel
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```
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### Changing the Document Language
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The default language of this template is American English. The `lang` variable identifies the main language of the document, using a code according to [BCP 47](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47) (e.g. `en` or `en-GB`). For an incomplete list of the supported language code see [the documentation for the hyph-utf8 package (Section 2)](http://tug.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/doc/generic/hyph-utf8/hyphenation.pdf). The following example changes the language to British English:
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel -V lang=en-GB
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```
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The following example changes the language to German:
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```bash
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pandoc example.md -o example.pdf --template eisvogel -V lang=de
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```
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### Typesetting a Book
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The template uses the default KOMA-Script class `scrartcl` as the document class because it has some advantages over the default `article` class. For typesetting a book I recommend the corresponding KOMA-Script class `scrbook` instead of the default `book`. You can manually replace the string `scrartcl` in the template with `scrbook`.
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To get the correct chapter headings you need to tell pandoc that it should convert first level headings (indicated by one `#` in markdown) to chapters with the command line option `--top-level-division=chapter`.
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There will be one blank page before each chapter because the template is two-sided per default. So if you plan to publish your book as a PDF and don't need a blank page you should add the class option `onesided` which can be done by supplying a template variable `-V classoption=oneside`.
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### Example Images
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A green title page | Code blocks styled with listings
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[](examples/green-titlepage/green-titlepage.pdf) | [](examples/listings/listings.pdf)
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images and tables | Code blocks styled without listings
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[](examples/images-and-tables/images-and-tables.pdf) | [](examples/without-listings/without-listings.pdf)
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## Credits
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- This template includes code for styling block quotations from [pandoc-letter](https://github.com/aaronwolen/pandoc-letter) by [Aaron Wolen](https://github.com/aaronwolen).
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## License
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This project is open source licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License. Please see the [LICENSE file](LICENSE) for more information. |