This is because the default LaTeX template redefines \paragraph
. To disable this behaviour, you can use the subparagraph
variable in pandoc. You could supply this at the command-line:
pandoc --variable subparagraph -o file.pdf file.md
Or you could embed it in the document’s YAML metadata, with any non-null value:
---
subparagraph: yes
---
From man pandoc
(and the user’s guide):
subparagraph
disables default behavior of LaTeX template that redefines (sub)paragraphs as sections, changing the appearance of nested headings in some classes
After this, titlesec.sty
should work.