Specifying papersize for md to pdf conversion

Question

I've read you can specify papersize by pandoc -V papersize:"a4paper" .... This doesn't seem to work anymore. I've managed to specify B5 using

pandoc -V papersize:b5 -o out.pdf in.md

But this fails for e.g. b6. The following -V arguments also all appear to have no effect:

-V papersize:b5paper
-V papersize:"b5paper"
-V "papersize:b5paper"

What is the proper way to format this, or am I missing something more fundamental? In my opinion the documentation is far from clear, lacking e.g. any examples.

Answer 1

pandoc -s -V papersize:a4

Pandoc's LaTeX template will append paper to a4...

Answer 2

You can use either -V papersize:a4 per the manual or -V geometry:a4paper. The latter has a side-effect of giving smaller margins than the default template.