:Pandoc command does nothing in nvim

[leou]

I'm new to vim-pandoc and vim-pandoc-syntax. I'm using nvim version v0.8.2 on Arch Linux and have installed only those two plugins with vim-plug. Python3 version is 3.10.9, pandoc version 2.19.2. I can run pandoc in the command line with no problem to create pdf or html files from markdown source files.

When I run :Pandoc html or :Pandoc pdf while editing a markdown file nothing happens, no warning or error messages appear and no pdf or html files are created in the directory where the markdown file is located.

I'd appreciate any help to figure out why it does not work.
Leo

[mBaratta96]

Same problem here. Nvim v0.8.3 on Ubuntu. Installed with packer

[mBaratta96]

#152 seems to be the solution.

[muziejus]

I think I have a variant of this problem. Nvim 0.9.0 on MacOS 13.4. Concretely, given a markdown file:

• :Pandoc pdf does nothing.
• :Pandoc -t pdf -o out.pdf creates a pdf using the standard LaTeX template.
• :Pandoc -t pdf --metadata-file metadata.yml -o out.pdf uses the global metadata file I have for all the documents in the folder and passes that metadata to the default LaTeX template.
• :Pandoc -t pdf --metadata-file metadata.yml --template math-lecture-notes.tex -o out.pdf does nothing.

By "does nothing," I mean there is no error, nothing shows up in :messages, and no pdf appears in the directory.

This is the command I use on the command line, which works fine:

pandoc 07.md --pdf-engine=xelatex --metadata-file=metadata.yml --template=math-lecture-notes.tex -o out.pdf

The markdown file is simply:

---
title: Lecture 07
date: 13 June 2023
---

Hello.

[muziejus]

I'm still not sure why the command worked with the examples like :Pandoc -t pdf -o out.pdf above, but I finally got vim-pandoc to work what seems like correctly (I still can't get the workflow completely reproduced, but I at least get the "pandoc-execute" terminal and :Pandoc html produces a file.)

In https://github.com/benbrastmckie/.config, @benbrastmckie mentions installing pynvim. I had never installed this. Once I installed it, things started to work ok. @leou have you installed it?

[muziejus]

I can confirm that I can reproduce:

pandoc 07.md --pdf-engine=xelatex --metadata-file=metadata.yml --template=math-lecture-notes.tex -o out.pdf

with

:Pandoc! pdf --metadata-file metadata.yml --template "math-lecture-notes.tex" -o out.pdf

in nvim. It seems like the . in the template name causes an issue, so I have to surround the template name in quotes.

Now to get fancy with vim-pandoc templates!