Header and footer in YAML metablock for rmarkdown and pandoc
Is it possible to specify a header and / or footer in the YAML metablock? Something that you could install on every page. This is in rmarkdown and then translated to pdf (using pandoc and knitr). I couldn't find anything (header: and footer: unfortunately didn't work!)
---
title: testpdf | test
footer: "test footer"
theme: "zenburn"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
output: "pdf_document"
fig_width: 12
fig_height: 6
fig_caption: true
---
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There is no built-in support for pandoc-markdown headers and footers. However, since pandoc creates PDF documents via latex, you can customize your latex template to accommodate them.
Create a new default template:
pandoc -D latex > footer_template.latex
Add the following lines to the latex preamble (this is a very basic example that should create a centered footer, see fancyhdr user manual if you need something more advanced)
$if(footer)$ \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyfoot[C]{$footer$} $endif$
Finally, add this to the yaml header of your document:
output:
pdf_document:
template: test.latex
Your template must either be in ~/.pandoc/templates
or in the same directory as test.rmd
for this to work.
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