change alphabetized sort order of yaml metadata in markdown output

change alphabetized sort order of yaml metadata in markdown output

[Tommy Keswick]

When creating markdown files with external metadata (JSON or YAML) or inline, the resulting YAML metadata block always has its keys sorted alphabetically. Is there a way to change this behavior? I’d really like to have title appear first before a multiline abstract instead of at the bottom of the block.

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Re: change alphabetized sort order of yaml metadata in markdown output

[John MacFarlane]

Sorry, no.  The internal representation of metadata is an unordered map, so there is no way to retain the order you started with.

See https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7891

To make the output deterministic, we sort it in the Markdown writer (contextToYaml function).  Of course, we could adopt a different sorting convention, ensuring that `”title”`, `”author”`, and `”date”` come first.




> On Sep 2, 2022, at 4:53 PM, Tommy Keswick <tkeswick-pJ6Lu2hYgzjsYTE41BnpkpVzexx5G7lz@public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> When creating markdown files with external metadata (JSON or YAML) or inline, the resulting YAML metadata block always has its keys sorted alphabetically. Is there a way to change this behavior? I’d really like to have title appear first before a multiline abstract instead of at the bottom of the block.
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