Image centering with pandoc markdown

Question

I need to create documents periodically for Word-using administrators. How can I centre an image using pandoc markdown? I see mention of div blocks, but I have no idea what they are.

![](myimage.png){.center}

With image code such as that above, and a command line such as:

pandoc -s test.md -o test.docx

or

pandoc -s test.md -o test.pdf

I always end up with left-aligned images in my document.

Answer 1

For PDF output, using the implicit_figure option will automatically center image on page and allow you to display an title for images.

In the .md document:

![This is an image](path/to/image.png)

Run the following command to generate PDF from you .md

pandoc ./README.md \
  -o ./README.pdf \
  -f markdown+implicit_figures

Answer 2

If you get the image to render as a figure, you can add styling to make it centered. There are two ways to make the image render as a figure:

1. Give it a caption:

   ![Caption](folder/img.png){ style="width: 70%; margin: auto;" }

2. For some reason, if you don't provide a caption, Pandoc won't create a figure. In that case you can do it manually:

   <figure>![](folder/img.png){ style="width: 70%; margin: auto;" }</figure>