Change fontsize for footnotes?

[kcho17]

Hi there! I am using pandoc to produce pdf. I am wondering if there's a way to change font size for my footnotes. Thanks!

[iandol]

That depends on the PDF engine you are using. If you are using a LaTeX path, then you will need to edit the LaTeX template to do this:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#templates

...and implement something like https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/249415/set-font-size-for-footnotes

You can use YAML by using the template syntax, so for example if you were using Typst for PDF generation:

$if(footnotesize)$
#show footnote.entry: set text(size: $footnotesize$)
$endif$

Pandoc will insert the value if it finds the footnotesize variable in the metadata...

[kcho17]

Thanks for this answer. I am using xelatex for the PDF engine. I try to the code you gave, but it didn't work. It doesn't need to be YAML but in any case I would like to change the fontsize for footnotes.

[kcho17]

Oh I think I've figured out! I just added the following in the YAML metadata

---
header-includes: |
	\renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{11pt}{13pt}\selectfont}
...

It works!