updated deprecated latex command, changed dimensions to us letter, fixed language code, tweaked size

details.yml

@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ email: jovanovic@mmg.mpg.de
 #
 # Sections
 #
-#intro: "My present project, 'Empires on the Danube: Historicity and Urbanism in Belgrade, Budapest, Ruse, and Vienna' highlights the common structural forces and tensions of urban transformation, capitalism and the production of historicist space on the banks of the Danube. I explore how Habsburg and Ottoman imperial histories intersect with contemporary articulations of 'historical space' through market competitiveness, place marketing, and discourses of Europeanness."
+#intro: "My present project, 'Empires on the Danube: History, Memory and Urban Space between Habsburg and Ottoman Cities' highlights the common structural forces and tensions of urban transformation, capitalism and the production of historicist space on the banks of the Danube. I explore how Habsburg and Ottoman imperial histories intersect with contemporary articulations of 'historical space' through market competitiveness, place marketing, and discourses of Europeanness."
 #
 interests:
-  - urban history, materiality, capitalism, socialism, Habsburg empire, Ottoman empire, Eastern Europe, Balkans, Global south-east
+  - urban history, materiality, capitalism, socialism, Eastern Europe, Habsburg empire, Ottoman empire, Balkans
 
 education:
 - year: 2016
@@ -60,11 +60,7 @@ publications:
 - year: 2018
   title: "Whitewashed Empire: Historical Narrative and Place Marketing in Vienna"
   publication: History & Anthropology
-  details: submitted as part of "Ambivalent Legacies" Special Issue
-- year: 2017
-  title: "Tianjin's Imperial Discomfort"
-  publication: Max Planck Institute Blog
-  details: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/online-media/blogs/2017/jovanovic-tianjins-imperial-discomfort/
+  details: forthcoming as part of "Ambivalent Legacies" Special Issue
 - year: 2013
   title: "The City in Our Hands: Urban Management and Contested Modernity in Nineteenth Century Belgrade"
   publication: Urban History
@@ -172,6 +168,6 @@ languages:
 # Settings
 mainfont: Linux Libertine O
 fontsize: 12pt
-lang: English
-geometry: a4paper, left=35mm, right=35mm, top=51mm, bottom=17mm
+lang: en-US
+geometry: letterpaper, left=35mm, right=35mm, top=45mm, bottom=23mm
 ---

makefile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 TEX = pandoc
 src = template.tex details.yml
-FLAGS = --latex-engine=xelatex
+FLAGS = --pdf-engine=xelatex
 
 output.pdf : $(src)
 	$(TEX) $(filter-out $<,$^ ) -o $@ --template=$< $(FLAGS)

template.tex

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
 %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
 
-\documentclass[$fontsize$, a4paper]{article}
+\documentclass[$fontsize$, letterpaper]{article}
 
 % LAYOUT
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