Allow Pandoc to parse metadata rather than doing it in the plugin. #4
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This involves a fairly complicated dance with a Pandoc "filter" module in order to get all of the metadata to be visible in the output, but means that all metadata formats supported by Pandoc are available without the need for any additional Python modules. It also means strings in metadata will be processed as Markdown. NOTE: Thanks to jgm/pandoc#2026 and backward compatibility constraints, this change defaults to enabling 'mmd_title_block' and *disabling* 'pandoc_title_block' and 'yaml_metadata_block'. Moreover, putting either +pandoc_title_block or +yaml_metadata_block in PANDOC_EXTENSIONS will cause mmd_title_block to be disabled.
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please see conversation in #5 |
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There seems to be an issue which prevents the correct parsing of MD metadata if the header contains certain characters such as "#". I will look into this and get back to you. |
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Looks like it's probably time to come back to this; @zackw, will you have time or motivation to tackle integrating the output from Pandoc? If not, I can do so, though it'll probably be mid-December before I get there. (Note that the change isn't in a release yet, but it is on master, so it should be in a release fairly soon.) @liob, did you ever sort out the MD metadata |
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I probably won't have time to do anything with that until mid-December at the earliest, either, but I will do it eventually. |
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Any news about this @zackw? |
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I might work on this in the next couple weeks, but I can't make any promises. |
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The recent version of Pandoc allows for metadata extraction. As @chriskrycho commented (and @zackw probably already knows this, since he's the one that started the thread), one can do this using the |
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Wanted to bump this a bit. I'm trying to consolidate my publications list on my professional website through one bibtex file, and pandoc as as my markdown parser, and this feature would make my life much easier 😄 |
This involves a fairly complicated dance with a Pandoc "filter"
module in order to get all of the metadata to be visible in the
output, but means that all metadata formats supported by Pandoc
are available without the need for any additional Python modules.
It also means strings in metadata will be processed as Markdown.
This pull request is an alternative to #3, "Add support for YAML metadata." They achieve roughly the same effects but involve different design tradeoffs. Please decide which you like better, merge that one and reject the other one.