djot doesn't support metadata

[dcampbell24]

Text File

% title
% author
% date

$ pandoc --standalone --to=man text-file.1.dj --output=text-file.1

The header lines are not read as header lines.

pandoc version: pandoc 3.2.1
OS: Debian bookworm

[dcampbell24]

Reference: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#metadata-blocks

[jgm]

This isn't a bug. This format of metadata is only for pandoc markdown, not for djot.
There is an issue somewhere at jgm/djot to discuss possible metadata extensions, if you'd like to look at that.