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From: Joost <joostkremers-97jfqw80gc6171pxa8y+qA@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Interpolate a value defined in metadata without a template
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:19:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525b4bf5-4db1-4040-baaf-b4fea3be6a01@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEe_xxjkA5yFoxtq7aFfxfxw_88HO1aL46URc1qyr3fdzddudg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, at 10:13, William Lupton wrote:
> I think this requires a filter. There's a very simple example at 
> https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#macro-substitution (that 
> illustrates how to expand '{{foo}}') and I have written my own that 
> uses '%foo%' syntax. I could share an outline of my filter if you like. 
> W.

FWIW this example filter may be even better:

https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#replacing-placeholders-with-their-metadata-value

Since it seems to discuss the OP's exact use case: fill in place holders with information from the metadata.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-09  9:19 UTC|newest]

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2022-02-09  1:55 ` Shiwei Weng
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2022-02-09  9:13     ` William Lupton
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2022-02-09  9:19         ` Joost [this message]
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2022-02-09  9:35             ` William Lupton
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2022-02-09 14:46                 ` Shiwei Weng
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2022-02-09 14:49                     ` AW: " denis.maier-NSENcxR/0n0
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2022-02-09 15:06                         ` Shiwei Weng

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