make minor modifications to the pdfs generated?

[zenny]

Hi @jgm,

Great package that replaces most of other file format conversion tools! +1

I am using pandoc both from command line, and also using ox-pandoc emacs package (I have raised two issues, reportedly assuming that it has to do with eihther with emacs configurations (jkitchin/scimax#509) or with the ox-pandoc package ( emacsorphanage/ox-pandoc#43) which does not seem to be the case once I have started exploring a bit further as suggested by the developers in the related threads.

I am trying to achieve four things with pandoc because they are bottlenecks to the workflow of any scribe (discussed in pprevos/emacs-writing-studio#24) :

1. Change the font from the default pandoc template while exporting from the orgfile or any other input files pandoc supports.
2. Insert a table of contents on a separate page from the title page and the rest of the contents ( tried appending #+pandoc-options: or latex-header: inside the org file, but did not work).
3. Specify LaTeX template (like kaobook (https://github.com/fmarotta/kaobook) ) either on orgmode file header or on command line to make the output file look as specified when exported to pdf.
4. Using wkhtmltopdf does a fantastic job to wrap the tables which is nearly impossible in orgmode without complex LaTeX configurationy, but generates a redundant horizontal scroll bar as if it is an webpage, not in pdfs.

I appreciate if there are ways to overcome the bottlenecks as above. Thanking you in anticipation,

Cheers,
/zenny

[jgm]

1. Changing the font (for PDF output) just requires setting the mainfont as a variable or in metadata (assuming you're using --pdf-engine=xelatex which is recommended). See the manual under "Variables for LaTeX".
2. You could probably achieve this by beginning your document with \newpage.
3. kaobook is a class not a template. You could try setting documentclass and classoption variables. Not sure how well it would work; it depends on the class.
4. Surprised to hear this. wkhtmltopdf is deprecated anyway, try weasyprint or pagejs-cli. You could also try fiddling with --pdf-engine-opt to pass options to wkhtmltopdf (consult its manual).