pandoc markdown - drawing circuit diagrams using circuitikz?

Question

I want to be able to use the commands in the circuitikz package for drawing circuit diagrams in my document which I am writing in Pandoc Markdown. I am familiar with inlining Latex math mode commands in pandoc but would it be possible to use the circuitikz environment and its associated commands as well ?

Edit: I am interested in PDF output only.

Answer 1

If you're only interested in PDF output from Pandoc, then you can just load the ciruitikz package in the header-includes: portion of your Markdown document as in the example below. If you want to do conversions to other formats, things are more complicated, but there are some questions on the site on how to include TikZ images into converted Pandoc documents. See e.g.

• How to use PanDoc to derive output from LaTeX and TikZ to a DOCX file?

--- 
header-includes: |
    \usepackage{circuitikz}
---
# A heading

Some text.


\begin{circuitikz}[american]
\draw (0,0) to[isource, l=$I_0$] (0,3) --
        (2,3)
   to[R=$R_1$] (2,0) -- (0,0);
   \draw (2,3) -- (4,3) to[R=$R_2$]
(4,0) -- (2,0); \end{circuitikz}