I think that should work. You may want to make a pull request.

> On Oct 12, 2023, at 11:20 AM, Bruno Grenet wrote:
>
> I did not think about it before, but it seems there is a very simple solution. I just searched for "printbibliography" in pandoc's source code. From what I see, it seems that this is added to the .tex file from the default latex template (line 583). Therefore, it is enough to add a test for the metadata suppress-bibliography. Basically, it is sufficient to surround lines 576-586 with "$if(suppress-bibliography)$$else$" and "$endif$". Is there any problem with this solution?
>
> Le jeudi 12 octobre 2023 à 18:56:55 UTC+2, John MacFarlane a écrit :
> That's true; this only affects use with citeproc. I'm not even sure how to make this happen with biblatex.
>
>
> > On Oct 12, 2023, at 1:01 AM, Bruno Grenet wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > It seems to me that the metadata field suppress-bibliography has no effect when using the command-line option --biblatex. A minimal working example:
> >
> > ---
> > references:
> > - author:
> > - family: Cooley
> > given: James W.
> > - family: Tukey
> > given: John W.
> > container-title: Mathematics of computation
> > doi: 10.1090/S0025-5718-1965-0178586-1
> > id: CooleyTukey1965
> > issue: 90
> > issued: 1965
> > page: 297-301
> > title: An Algorithm for the Machine Calculation of Complex Fourier Series
> > type: article-journal
> > volume: 19
> > ---
> > This is a citation [@CooleyTukey1965].
> >
> > Then I can use either
> >
> > pandoc MWE.md -s --biblatex -o MWE.tex
> >
> > or
> >
> > pandoc MWE.md -s --metadata=suppress-bibliography --biblatex -o MWE.tex
> >
> > and I get in both case the same result, that is the document is finishing with a \printbibliography.
> >
> > Am I missing something? Thanks!
> >
> >
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