Substitude a variable from a whole file

Substitude a variable from a whole file

[David Demelier]

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Hello,

I'm wondering if there is a way to substitute a variable from a file so 
that you can make large templates / layouts like this:

$header$

$body$

$content$

$footer$

And then pandoc ... header=header.txt body=body.txt and such.

The option -V is nice but for embedding large content it can break the 
command line invocation IMHO.

What about something like --variable-file and --metadata-file options?

Regards,
David.

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Re: Substitude a variable from a whole file

['Jason Seeley' via pandoc-discuss]

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This sounds like a job for a file preprocessor or template processor. I use 
filepp, myself, but there are others (gpp, the C preprocessor, and template 
processors like Mako, Jinja, etc.). Any of those have some variation on 
"#include 'body.txt'", so you can build your file from different parts. 
Depending on what works best for your files, you could pipe the output of 
the preprocessor to Pandoc, or the other way around. 

On Monday, December 8, 2014 10:09:22 AM UTC-6, David Demelier wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if there is a way to substitute a variable from a file so 
> that you can make large templates / layouts like this:
>
> $header$
>
> $body$
>
> $content$
>
> $footer$
>
> And then pandoc ... header=header.txt body=body.txt and such.
>
> The option -V is nice but for embedding large content it can break the 
> command line invocation IMHO.
>
> What about something like --variable-file and --metadata-file options?
>
> Regards,
> David.
>

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