The Wikipedia page on YAML contains very good descriptions of the syntax, both terse listing of syntax rules and more explanatory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML Note that some of the more advanced features don't make sense in Pandoc metadata and/or are not supported by the parser Pandoc uses. /bpj Den 20 sep 2017 18:51 skrev "R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" : > Thank you. Both single and double quotes work. > > I do not know YAML well and think that I had been overly fixated on > backslash escaping to consider alternatives. > > Chandra > > On 20/09/17 22:11, Gwern Branwen wrote: > >> Don't you quote it like any other string literal? >> >> --- >> title: "This title: has a colon" >> ---- >> >> That's always seemed to fix escaping problems in my Hakyll files' >> metadata. >> >> > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/pandoc-discuss/16f23044-d51d-cb0d-fb5e-63f11df2ed5a%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAFC_yuRBc0CvG8hgV0z%2BHZzwmRcWXjC7KrL1Rtvj1xyY%3D0-OUw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.