Re: Can't access keys containing spaces in pandoc

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

It's something we could think about.

There are two possible approaches here.

1. Modify doctemplates (our templating engine) to allow spaces in
variables.  This would mean allowing things like

$this is a long variable name$

in a template.  I think this kind of thing makes it less clear
where the variables are, but it shouldn't pose any problem in principle.

2. Modify pandoc so that, when metadata is used to populate
template variables, spaces are automatically replaced by
underscores.  In this case you'd use

$this_is_a_long_variable_name$

in your template.

Comments (from anyone) are welcome.

Frederik Hartmann <hecknar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> That's really not the answer I'd have hoped to hear...
>
> Do you know if a PR fixing this might be getting accepted?
> It's really limiting when perfectly valid yaml can't be used as template 
> input.
>
> Thanks a lot though.