This is a showcase of different CSS templates which I have adapted for use in Pandoc when converting from Markdown to HTML. Where credit is due for the original css file I’ve included it in the CSS file.

All the CSS templates and the raw html for inspection can be downloaded from here .

I normally use the templates in the following way to get a truly standalone .html file, which I can then email if necessary, or convert to a pdf using wkhtmltopdf:

style={style.css}

pandoc -f markdown -t html5 --css=$style --standalone -o output.html input.md

wkhtmltopdf output.html output.pdf

On to the templates:

blue_big

buttondown

chmduquesne_resume

github_pages

github

killercup

modest

panam

pandoc_tweak

pandoc

splendor

typewriter

Creating the images

For interest’s sake, this is the short bash script I used to loop over the css files to make the screenshots seen above:

#!/bin/bash 

for i in /Users/johngodlee/.pandoc/templates/css/*.css; do
	name=$(echo ${i##*/})
        filename=$(echo "$name" | cut -f 1 -d '.')
	pandoc -f markdown -t html5 --css=$i -H $i --standalone -o "css_test_html/test_${filename}.html" test.md
done

Note that all of the .css files are wrapped in a <style type="text/css"> ... </style>, which doesn’t make any difference to the way the stylsheet functions, but meas that I can use the -H flag in pandoc to add the stylesheet contents to the head of the .html file, making it truly standalone.

The contents of test.md:

---
title: Lorem Ipsum
author: John Godlee
date: 2018-04-01
---

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Praesent ligula enim, commodo ut placerat vitae, cursus aliquam risus. 

# Super header

Praesent accumsan tincidunt interdum. Sed nulla tortor, convallis in placerat quis, consectetur sit amet arcu. [THIS IS A LINK](https://johngodlee.github.io) Etiam sit amet dui malesuada, 

* List item 1
* List item 2

1. List item a
2. List item b

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## Smaller header

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>
> -- Pliny

```r
pdf("Regression_plot.pdf")
  for (var in unique(Root$Plot_Date_Sample)) {
    print( ggplot(Root[Root$Plot_Date_Sample==var,], 
        aes(x = Time, y = Cum_Root_Mass_g)) +
             geom_point())
  }
dev.off()
\`\`\`

![](../test.png)

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Pandoc CSS templates

2018-08-20