* Use a pipe to generate only first word of a variable? @ 2023-02-03 17:55 Paul Kelleher [not found] ` <074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Paul Kelleher @ 2023-02-03 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1084 bytes --] Hello, Is it possible to use a pipe in a template to generate just the first word of a variable? My specific use case is to produce just the first name of a first-and-last name that I place in the "to" field of a YAML block that passes info to a letter template. I'd like to generate "Dear <first name>,". To do this now, I've defined "to" as an array, with the first name as the first value of the array and the last name as the second value; then I can use the predefined 'first' pipe to return just the first name. But for reasons specific to my particular use case, it'd be great to have a pipe that returns the first word of a multi-word variable. Thanks! -- 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/074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n%40googlegroups.com. [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1446 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: Use a pipe to generate only first word of a variable? [not found] ` <074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> @ 2023-02-03 18:57 ` Paul Kelleher [not found] ` <CAD0VMekeTBm__Qt6bAqFMCQ8TVXF+s9Uf4_xsZHxmJ3b_CNVuw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Paul Kelleher @ 2023-02-03 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2236 bytes --] Just realized that one approach is to have Pandoc pass the full name string (e.g. 'First Last') to the template, but then to create a macro inside the template that will return just the first word in the string, as described here <https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316730/extract-first-word-in-a-string>. That worked for me! On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 11:55 AM Paul Kelleher <paul-JZTKsBFbLNkkm2bSNb+QWw@public.gmane.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to use a pipe in a template to generate just the first word > of a variable? > > My specific use case is to produce just the first name of a first-and-last > name that I place in the "to" field of a YAML block that passes info to a > letter template. I'd like to generate "Dear <first name>,". To do this now, > I've defined "to" as an array, with the first name as the first value of > the array and the last name as the second value; then I can use the > predefined 'first' pipe to return just the first name. But for reasons > specific to my particular use case, it'd be great to have a pipe that > returns the first word of a multi-word variable. > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pandoc-discuss/cEe1t7Fw4-o/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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/074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAD0VMekeTBm__Qt6bAqFMCQ8TVXF%2Bs9Uf4_xsZHxmJ3b_CNVuw%40mail.gmail.com. [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 3191 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: Use a pipe to generate only first word of a variable? [not found] ` <CAD0VMekeTBm__Qt6bAqFMCQ8TVXF+s9Uf4_xsZHxmJ3b_CNVuw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> @ 2023-02-04 10:29 ` Bastien DUMONT 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Bastien DUMONT @ 2023-02-04 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw You can also write: --- author: first: John last: Doe --- And use in your template use $author.first$ Le Friday 03 February 2023 à 12:57:16PM, Paul Kelleher a écrit : > Just realized that one approach is to have Pandoc pass the full name string > (e.g. 'First Last') to the template, but then to create a macro inside the > template that will return just the first word in the string, as described [1] > here. That worked for me! > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 11:55 AM Paul Kelleher <[2]paul-JZTKsBFbLNkkm2bSNb+QWw@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is it possible to use a pipe in a template to generate just the first word > of a variable? > > My specific use case is to produce just the first name of a first-and-last > name that I place in the "to" field of a YAML block that passes info to a > letter template. I'd like to generate "Dear <first name>,". To do this now, > I've defined "to" as an array, with the first name as the first value of > the array and the last name as the second value; then I can use the > predefined 'first' pipe to return just the first name. But for reasons > specific to my particular use case, it'd be great to have a pipe that > returns the first word of a multi-word variable. > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit [3]https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ > pandoc-discuss/cEe1t7Fw4-o/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to [4] > pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit [5]https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/pandoc-discuss/ > 074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n%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 [6]pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit [7]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ > pandoc-discuss/ > CAD0VMekeTBm__Qt6bAqFMCQ8TVXF%2Bs9Uf4_xsZHxmJ3b_CNVuw%40mail.gmail.com. > > References: > > [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/316730/extract-first-word-in-a-string > [2] mailto:paul-JZTKsBFbLNkkm2bSNb+QWw@public.gmane.org > [3] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pandoc-discuss/cEe1t7Fw4-o/unsubscribe > [4] mailto:pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > [5] https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/074330dd-ae01-4471-9550-ea09b2fe7363n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > [6] mailto:pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > [7] https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAD0VMekeTBm__Qt6bAqFMCQ8TVXF%2Bs9Uf4_xsZHxmJ3b_CNVuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer -- 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/Y94zkCXSuBYj2ePA%40localhost. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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