I think you just need $title$ in the template file, not $title-string$


On Monday, 3 January 2022 at 20:51:04 UTC+2 John MacFarlane wrote:

>
> There is a way, but it's a bit complex.
> First, create a template title.template containing just
>
> ```
> $title-string$
> ```
>
> Then:
>
> for f in *.md; do pandoc "$f" -o "$(pandoc $f --template title.template -t 
> plain).pdf"; done
>
>
> SlyFox <iv...-M4KSPFaPddvGc7VoSCgjcw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > YAML Metada looks like this
> >
> > ```
> > ---
> > Tag: tag1, tag2
> > title: "Title I want to use"
> > Status: active
> > Name: "John Smith"
> > ---
> > ```
> >
> > I currently use this command
> >
> > ```
> > for f in *.md; do pandoc "$f" -o "${f%.md}.pdf"; done
> > ```
> >
> > How do I set the command so that the file name will be taken from the 
> title 
> > metadata?
> >
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