markdown-to-pdf | A simple node server to convert markdown files to pdf

The error message:

all buildscript {} blocks must appear before any plugins {} blocks in the script

Explains what you need to do: move the buildscript block before the plugins block. E.g.

Given that single-spaces after a sentence is not just a web convention but a print convention too it's highly unlikely that there will be an elegant technical solution for achieving this bad-practice of typography. So the solution in this case is easy, use proper practice of typography :)

documentclass: krantz indicates that you are writing a book for Chapman & Hall, and I have provided a starter repo bookdown-crc for such authors who use bookdown (the bookdown-demo repo is not the best option for you). Your issue does not exist in this repo because I set template: null for pdf_book in _output.yml. The reason for this is that I wanted to use Pandoc's default template, which does not add the default margin=1in to the geometry option in YAML (and rmarkdown does -- that is the culprit).

If you do want to use rmarkdown's LaTeX template (which is modified based on Pandoc's), you can set