Pandoc YAML metadata block

[hugoroy]

It would be awesome to be able to use pandoc’s metadata feature to replace the way ikiwiki usually required metadata http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#yaml-metadata-block

[sciunto]

Hi Hugo,

I'm running a bit out of time, but if you have a patch to suggest, I'd be happy to integrate it :)

Best.

[hugoroy]

Is there a doc?

[sciunto]

Nothing else than that README file. But the script is simple.

My main contribution was to gather various versions available because nobody took care to merge fixes. So, I kept the best of each version.

[hugoroy]

Okay, so maybe a new option could be added:
pandoc_yaml-metadata-block and so instead of using ikiwiki’s
meta directive this
would use pandoc’s yaml option as described in
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#yaml-metadata-block

But it’s unclear to me how the script would work to give to
ikiwiki the variables (author, date, tags, copyright, license,
language, etc.) used in the ikiwiki template.

Thanks for your help!

PS: for some context, I’m not usually a programmer 😉

[sciunto]

Sorry, I have been super slow on this but I just tried with the current plugin and a % title correctly change the title (http://pandoc.org/README.html#metadata-blocks). It's done at the bottom of this file: https://github.com/sciunto/ikiwiki-pandoc/blob/master/pandoc.pm

http://pandoc.org/README.html#metadata-blocks

[bk]

My PR #5 adds support for YAML metadata blocks and corrects the handling of title, author and date in the legacy %-prefix metadata header type.

[hugoroy]

This looks awesome, I will need to test this out when I have more time 👍

[sciunto]

Closed by #5.