Adding a title page, page headers and footers using Pandoc

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How do you specify that Pandoc should use a specific header and footer when generating a PDF from Markdown?

Currently I use the following to create my doc from the command line:

pandoc -s -V geometry:margin=1in --number-sections -o doc.pdf doc.mkd

This gives a lovely result with numbered sections.

What I would like to do, is to include a header and footer on each page. How do I go about it?

The extensions mechanism, e.g. pandoc_title_block may hold the key, but how do you use it?

Lastly (as a bonus), is there some way to create a title page for a document using pandoc?

A good answer to this question can be found here, too https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/139205/134508 — Aᴄʜᴇʀᴏɴғᴀɪʟ, Aug 13 '17 at 22:21

score 14 · Accepted Answer · edited May 17 '19 at 00:50

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When using the -s (--standalone) argument for the generation of PDFs, Pandoc uses a specific LateX template.

You can look at the template with pandoc -D latex and notice that there are many variables that you can set (the same way you did you with -V geometry:margin=1in in your command).

In order to add a specific header/footer, you can modify this template and use the --template argument in the command line.

You can get more information here Pandoc demo templates

edited May 17 '19 at 00:50

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answered Oct 27 '13 at 16:54

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For others information: The "geometry" variable is not implemented in pandoc included in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For a possible workaround see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/59mBEixlIJU – Samuel Åslund Mar 18 '14 at 09:49

Adding a title page, page headers and footers using Pandoc

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