Re: Can't access keys containing spaces in pandoc

[Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 2019-09-03 18:35, Daniel Staal wrote:
> 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.  

So would I. Replacing all sequences of non-(ASCII)alphanumerics with an 
underscore is the usual way to convert arbitrary strings to identifiers, 
after all.

> 

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