CODEWITHSUNDEEP
markdownpandoc
user136555
user136555

Reputation: 267

Change font family and size when converting from Markdown to Word?

I am trying to learn Basics of Markdown and Pandoc to speed up my academic writing.

I would like to ask whether it possible to define font family and font size, when converting from Markdown (.md) file to Word-2016 (.docx) file? I tried two methods:

  1. I added 
---
mainfont: "Palatino"
---

to the *.md file.

  1. I tried to add -- variable mainfont="Palatino" to the command line when converting files.

Neither method produces desired font change. Could anyone advise on the proper method of setting the font, if it is possible to do so during the conversion procedure?

Edit: I have followed guidelines presented in the article "Sustainable Authorship" on programminghistorian.org, where they suggest using mainfont: times in YAML. I would like to know why it is not working for me. My question is not duplicate, I do not need different fonts/styles for text body and headings. I need to have everything uniformly converted into "Arial" or "Palatino". Edit: I have tried to create a reference .docx file, however, I cannot understand how to make changes to the reference file, so these changes are implemented when Pandoc converting my markdown to .docx.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2464

Answers (1)

mb21
mb21

Reputation: 39209

As mentioned in the MANUAL, the mainfont variable doesn't work for docx output, only PDF/LaTeX/ConTeX etc..

For Word, you need to use the --reference-doc option.

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/34609460/214446

Upvotes: 2

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