Markdown to PDF: Convert using Half Letter paper size

[johnmapeson]

Is it possible to convert from Markdown to PDF using the Half Letter (5.5 by 8.5 inches) paper size?

I tried

pandoc -V papersize:halfletter -o output.pdf input.txt

But this gives an error:

[makePDF] LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s): [halfletterpaper]

[badumont]

LaTeX supports only b5paper out of the box among the B formats. Fortunately, the "geometry" variable allows you to use the LaTeX package of the same name, which considerably extends the range of supported predefined paper sizes: pandoc -V geometry:b6paper -o output.pdf input.md

[johnmapeson]

Hello, thanks a lot. This is my fault, I completely re-wrote the question after it was posted. (To my excuse, I did it very quickly.)

The current version of the question is about how to produce a PDF with the Half Letter paper size, which is 5.5 by 8.5 inches. Neither pandoc -V papersize:halfletter -o output.pdf input.txt nor pandoc -V geometry:halfletterpaper -o output.pdf input.md works for me.

[badumont]

Half letterpaper is not a predefined size in geometry, but you can provide arbitrary dimensions, e.g.: pandoc -o output.pdf -V geometry:paperwidth=2cm -V geometry:paperheight=12cm input.md By the way, the documentation of almost all LaTeX packages can be found here: https://ctan.org/ It may be more convenient to set the "geometry" variable in a metadata header as shown in the Pandoc manual.

[johnmapeson]

Thanks!