Installing and using fonts with Pandoc

Ben's Corner

2018-05-11

I’m still working on making my Markdown resume with Pandoc.

In the process, I have struggled a lot with making Hebrew fonts work while generating LaTeX, but Pandoc seems to have trouble with non-English characters globally, because its default font appears to be missing glyphs, at least on Ubuntu 16.04.

So how do you install fonts?

Download some .ttf font.
Put it in ~/.fonts.
Run sudo fc-cache -fv and confirm the font has been loaded with fc-list | grep [font name]

Then, add the mainfont variable to the Pandoc command: -V mainfont="[font name]".