Re: docx to pdf conversion error

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

YAML metadata only works with Markdown.

When you specify multiple files on the command line,
pandoc concatenates them together and treats them as
if they were one big file.

That works when one is yaml and the other is Markdown
(as long as the yaml has proper begin and end delimiters).

It doesn't work when one is yaml and the other is docx.

Related issue;
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1960


+++ sclarke-DpHT0TjK6O80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org [Nov 09 17 15:32 ]:
>   OK not sure if this is by design or a bug ;)
>   Relatively new to pandoc and coversion, and am coming from the Windowz
>   world.
>   We have a variety of OSs and editors in use and want to ensure a
>   commonality of  output format with standardised frontice pages etc.
>   Version: pandoc 2.0.1.1 Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.2, texmath
>   0.10, skylighting 0.4.3.2
>   We have created our own style file for formatting in latex, and our own
>   pandoc.latex to generate the coverpage etc.
>   We have been extending into using a yaml metadata file to include
>   variables and elements (email address, mulitple authors etc) for our
>   reports.
>   We have a problem with the yaml metadata file causing failures with the
>   conversion from docx to pdf.
>   The file works correctly when used against a markdown file to produce a
>   pdf.
>   Behaviour:
>   This fails -
>   >pandoc --standalone --toc --number-sections --pdf-engine=xelatex
>   --template pandoc.latex test.docx metadata.yaml -o test10.pdf
>   couldn't parse docx file
>   This works without issue -
>   >pandoc --standalone --toc --number-sections --pdf-engine=xelatex
>   --template pandoc.latex test.docx -o test10.pdf
>   Now either I'm doing something I'm not supposed to (and it will be very
>   annoying to have to go through the intermediary step of converting to
>   markdown file first then to pdf), or something is wrong with my syntax.
>   The same command when used for a markdown file works without issue and
>   draws the variables we want from the markdown.yaml.
>
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