Added better cover

include-cover.tex

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+% This file contains latex code that should be added at the front of the
+% generated latex document. This is done by using the pandoc command line
+% option `--include-before-body=include-cover.tex'
+%
+% Note that, in order for this to work, \usepackage{pdfpages} also
+% needs to be added to the header of the latex document. This is done
+% in pandoc-metadata.yaml
+%
+\includepdf[pages=-]{cover.pdf}  % include the cover PDF

pandoc-metadata.yaml

@@ -13,5 +13,6 @@ tags: [Markdown, Example]
 header-includes: |
     \usepackage{sectsty}
     \sectionfont{\clearpage}
+    \usepackage{pdfpages}
 links-as-notes: yes
 ---