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* extended title block in pandoc's markdown
@ 2012-11-11 17:47 Pablo Rodríguez
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From: Pablo Rodríguez @ 2012-11-11 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw

Hi John,

the extended markdown format enables three fields for metadata:

	% title
	% author (authors separated by semicolons)
	% date

I think it will be extremely helpful for users to be able to add two
additional fields for metadata:

	% language
	% rights

Language should be also passed to any <html> element generated from the
source document.

With these two further elements, the need of having to invoke a
metadata.xml file for ePub or HTML documents is greatly reduced.

I have also a suggestion for distinguishing title and subtitle as
different fields. English uses colon to separate title from subtitle
(such as “German Expressionism: An Introduction”), but this is the
exception to the general rule, such as German, French, Italian or Spanish.

Title and subtitle could be distinguished in the following way:

	% title
	: subtitle

Except in English, this isn't the same as

	% title: subtitle

because «La cuestión del título: distinciones» would be only a title in
Spanish (to be distinguished that title should read: «La cuestión del
título. Distinciones»).

Being able to distinguish title and subtitle is also important for the
automatic generation of cover page of ePub files.

Would you be so kind to consider the improvement suggestions for
extended pandoc?

Many thanks for your help,


Pablo
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2012-11-11 18:11   ` Gwern Branwen
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