What would a minimum latex template must contain in order to successfully convert markdown to pdf?

Question

pandoc -D latex contains a lot of things, most of what I don't need. I am trying to clean it up to a minimum to make it easier to edit.

I thought this would be the most minimum to get started with:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

$body$

\end{document}

I compiled with it like so: pandoc *.md --template=the.template -o out.pdf and received the following error:

Error producing PDF.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.5 \hypertarget

How may I fix this ?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '18 at 18:18

2

\hypertarget is defined by hyperref so you would need

\usepackage{hyperref}

answered Aug 06 '18 at 18:18

David Carlisle

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '18 at 10:24

0

This simple template might be helpful :

answered Sep 03 '18 at 10:24

daamien

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