Thank you for the response. When I use lang:ja Then * cover.xhtml * title_page.xhtml get xml:lang="ja" as expected, but none of the chapter files do. (ch001.xhtml, etc.) Is this the expected behavior? How can I also modify the chapter files? On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 1:42:15 AM UTC+9, BP Jonsson wrote: > > The metadata key is exactly like the placeholder in the template, no more, > no less, i.e. `lang: ja`. This is true generally, and you can easily define > your own variables in your own templates. That wouldn't work if Pandoc > meddled with the variable names so that the names used in metadata and > those used in templates were somehow different. > > > Den tis 29 okt. 2019 15:40Patrick Kenny > > skrev: > >> Going from markdown to epub3, how do I set the language on the HTML tag >> in the epub? >> >> For epub3, the template looks like this: >> >> >> >> In my YAML metadata block, I have this: >> >> language: ja >> >> This sets the language in content.opf: >> >> ja >> >> But it doesn't set the language on the HTML tag. >> >> I also tried adding >> >> language: ja >> >> to the metadata, but this didn't change the value on the HTML tag, either. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c500692e-7472-40fa-991e-378b7ab173d5%40googlegroups.com >> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/92867006-1219-4139-9aff-1bc7345c09c5%40googlegroups.com.