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I want to be able to use the commands in the circuitikz package for drawing circuit diagrams in my document which I am writing in Pandoc Markdown. I am familiar with inlining Latex math mode commands in pandoc but would it be possible to use the circuitikz environment and its associated commands as well ?

Edit: I am interested in PDF output only.

First User
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If you're only interested in PDF output from Pandoc, then you can just load the ciruitikz package in the header-includes: portion of your Markdown document as in the example below. If you want to do conversions to other formats, things are more complicated, but there are some questions on the site on how to include TikZ images into converted Pandoc documents. See e.g.

--- 
header-includes: |
    \usepackage{circuitikz}
---
# A heading

Some text.


\begin{circuitikz}[american]
\draw (0,0) to[isource, l=$I_0$] (0,3) --
        (2,3)
   to[R=$R_1$] (2,0) -- (0,0);
   \draw (2,3) -- (4,3) to[R=$R_2$]
(4,0) -- (2,0); \end{circuitikz}

output of code

Alan Munn
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  • sorry for the delayed response. Thanks a lot! this actually clarified a lot of things for me. I guess the question that I should have asked was : "How to use an arbitrary package within pandoc". – First User Mar 09 '21 at 17:15
  • One thing you might want to be aware of is that with complex inline TeX, pandoc can sometimes get confused, and it might be better to use the raw_attribute extension rather than using the TeX inline like I've done here. See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4646 and https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-raw_attribute. I'd try it until it breaks. :) – Alan Munn Mar 09 '21 at 17:22