Usage

To apply the filter, use the following option with pandoc:

$ pandoc --filter pandoc-latex-color

Explanation

In the metadata block, specific set of classes can be defined to specify the color for span elements.

The metadata block add information using the pandoc-latex-color entry by a list of definitions:

pandoc-latex-color:
  - classes: [important]
    color: red
    bgcolor: blue

The metadata block above is used to set the color to red and the background color to blue for span that have the important class.

The specified colors must be a valid X11 color name.

It’s also possible to set a specific LaTeX color or a specific background color using the latex-color or the latex-bgcolor attributes.

Example

Demonstration: Using pandoc-latex-color-sample.txt as input gives output file in pdf.