通过pandoc&wkhtmltopdf从mkd生成pdf时如何使用css设置页面/文档边距？

Question

I have this script

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euxo pipefail
MARGIN=.35in
pandoc -t html5 -V margin-top=$MARGIN -V margin-left=$MARGIN -V margin-bottom=$MARGIN -V margin-right=$MARGIN -V papersize=letter --css ~/bin/inc/pandoc-pdf.css $1 -o $2 -s --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf

which nicely generates a pdf file from a markdown file...

but what's not nice is that I'm setting the MARGIN manually via commandline parameter since I couldn't get the css to do it :/

In addition to fussing endlessly over the css I've tried using alternate pandoc templates (my guessing attempts with those templates don't feel worth sharing, I'm just using pandoc's default html template). The CSS looks like:

/*
 * I add this to html files generated with pandoc.
 */

html {
  font-size: 100%;
  overflow-y: scroll;
  -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
  -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

body {
  color: #444;
  font-family: Georgia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;
  font-size: 12px;
  line-height: 1.7;
  padding: 0;
  margin: auto;
  max-width: 32em;
  background: #fefefe;
}

a {
  color: #0645ad;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited {
  color: #0b0080;
}

a:hover {
  color: #06e;
}

a:active {
  color: #faa700;
}

a:focus {
  outline: thin dotted;
}

*::-moz-selection {
  background: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3);
  color: #000;
}

*::selection {
  background: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3);
  color: #000;
}

a::-moz-selection {
  background: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3);
  color: #0645ad;
}

a::selection {
  background: rgba(255, 255, 0, 0.3);
  color: #0645ad;
}

p {
  margin: 1em 0;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  color: #111;
  line-height: 125%;
  margin-top: 2em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

h4, h5, h6 {
  font-weight: bold;
}

h1 {
  font-size: 2.5em;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 2em;
}

h3 {
  font-size: 1.5em;
}

h4 {
  font-size: 1.2em;
}

h5 {
  font-size: 1em;
}

h6 {
  font-size: 0.9em;
}

blockquote {
  color: #666666;
  margin: 0;
  padding-left: 3em;
  border-left: 0.5em #EEE solid;
}

hr {
  display: block;
  height: 2px;
  border: 0;
  border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
  margin: 1em 0;
  padding: 0;
}

pre, code, kbd, samp {
  color: #000;
  font-family: monospace, monospace;
  _font-family: 'courier new', monospace;
  font-size: 0.98em;
}

pre {
  white-space: pre;
  white-space: pre-wrap;
  word-wrap: break-word;
}

b, strong {
  font-weight: bold;
}

dfn {
  font-style: italic;
}

ins {
  background: #ff9;
  color: #000;
  text-decoration: none;
}

mark {
  background: #ff0;
  color: #000;
  font-style: italic;
  font-weight: bold;
}

sub, sup {
  font-size: 75%;
  line-height: 0;
  position: relative;
  vertical-align: baseline;
}

sup {
  top: -0.5em;
}

sub {
  bottom: -0.25em;
}

ul, ol {
  margin: 1em 0;
  padding: 0 0 0 2em;
}

li p:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

ul ul, ol ol {
  margin: .3em 0;
}

dl {
  margin-bottom: 1em;
}

dt {
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-bottom: .8em;
}

dd {
  margin: 0 0 .8em 2em;
}

dd:last-child {
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

img {
  border: 0;
  -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;
  vertical-align: middle;
}

figure {
  display: block;
  text-align: center;
  margin: 1em 0;
}

figure img {
  border: none;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

figcaption {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  font-style: italic;
  margin: 0 0 .8em;
}

table {
  margin-bottom: 2em;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
  border-right: 1px solid #ddd;
  border-spacing: 0;
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

table th {
  padding: .2em 1em;
  background-color: #eee;
  border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
  border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
}

table td {
  padding: .2em 1em;
  border-top: 1px solid #ddd;
  border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
  vertical-align: top;
}

.author {
  font-size: 1.2em;
  text-align: center;
}

@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) {
  body {
    font-size: 14px;
  }
}
@media only screen and (min-width: 768px) {
  body {
    font-size: 16px;
  }
}
@media print {
  * {
    background: transparent !important;
    color: black !important;
    filter: none !important;
    -ms-filter: none !important;
  }

  body {
    font-size: 12pt;
    max-width: 100%;
    margin: 1em;
    margin-top: 1em !important;
  }

  a, a:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
  }

  hr {
    height: 1px;
    border: 0;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
  }

  a[href]:after {
    content: " (" attr(href) ")";
  }

  abbr[title]:after {
    content: " (" attr(title) ")";
  }

  .ir a:after, a[href^="javascript:"]:after, a[href^="#"]:after {
    content: "";
  }

  pre, blockquote {
    border: 1px solid #999;
    padding-right: 1em;
    page-break-inside: avoid;
  }

  tr, img {
    page-break-inside: avoid;
  }

  img {
    max-width: 100% !important;
  }

  @page :left {
    margin: 35mm 35mm 35mm 35mm;
  }

  @page :right {
    margin: 35mm 35mm 35mm 35mm;
  }

  p, h2, h3 {
    orphans: 3;
    widows: 3;
  }

  h2, h3 {
    page-break-after: avoid;
  }
}

What can I do with CSS to avoid setting MARGIN via commandline parameter?

Answer 1

The margin-left etc. options are just forwarded to the corresponding ones in wkhtmltopdf . But you can also set them as part of the YAML metadata:

---
margin-left: 5in
---

# hi

Some CSS to PDF processors also support this CSS, but I don't think wkhtmltopdf is among them:

@page {
  size: A4;
  margin: 27mm 16mm 27mm 16mm; 
}

I'm just using pandoc's default html template

I don't think so, as there was no such thing until pandoc 2.11 (which was released today). Have a look at the manual's variables for HTML section .