How do I change styles in markdown2pdf?

Question

I'm a markdown user, and am just getting my feet wet in latex for PDF creation. I'm using Pandoc and MikTex on Windows 7. The following command gives me a nice PDF document:

markdown2pdf myfile.text

How do I change the styles of the PDF? (Page margin, font size, etc). I've tried using the "-V" option to add styling information...

markdown2pdf -V fontsize=18pt myfile.text

...But it doesn't make any difference in the resulting PDF file. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

There exists a templating system that comes with pandoc, as described in the User Guide, but see the Templates section.

Kieran Healy has some nice templates that you could try first, before building your own.

And here is another example with code on github for The little MongoDB book.