Albert Krewinkel schrieb am Freitag, 29. September 2023 um 23:14:28 UTC+2:

Martin Post <martinpo...@gmail.com> writes:

> In a Pandoc document’s YAML metadata block, or in a Pandoc metadata file, I can do this:
>
> variable1: __content__
>
> …and it will be rendered as <strong>content</strong> for HTML.
>
> Doing this in a Pandoc DEFAULTS file:
>
> metadata:
> variable1: __content__
>
> …will render $variable1$ as “__content__”
>
> So – is it possible to have metadata in a defaults file interpreted as Markdown?

I think the only way would be to write a Lua filter that convert strings
to Inlines.

E.g.:

local strings2md
strings2md = function (meta)
for key, value in pairs(meta) do
if pandoc.utils.type(value) == 'string' then
-- Convert strings to Markdown
local blocks = pandoc.read(value).blocks
meta[key] = pandoc.utils.blocks_to_inlines(blocks)
elseif pandoc.utils.type(value) == 'List' then
-- Recurse on lists
meta[key] = strings2md(value)
end
end

return meta
end

Meta = strings2md

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