Re: Can't access keys containing spaces in pandoc

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

On 9/3/19 12:25 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
> There are two possible approaches here.
> 
> 1. Modify doctemplates (our templating engine) to allow spaces in
> variables.  This would mean allowing things like
> 
> $this is a long variable name$
> 
> in a template.  I think this kind of thing makes it less clear
> where the variables are, but it shouldn't pose any problem in principle.
> 
> 2. Modify pandoc so that, when metadata is used to populate
> template variables, spaces are automatically replaced by
> underscores.  In this case you'd use
> 
> $this_is_a_long_variable_name$
> 
> in your template.

I'd *strongly* prefer the latter.  I can't think of any programming or 
templating language that allows spaces in names - and it's pretty rare 
in human names as well.  (It's used in 'long-form' names, but very rare 
in commonly used names.)

Daniel T. Staal

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