Can I set command line arguments using the YAML metadata

Question

Pandoc supports a YAML metadata block in markdown documents. This can set the title and author, etc. It can also manipulate the appearance of the PDF output by changing the

Answer 1

Have a look at panzer (GitHub repository).

This was recently announced and released by Mark Sprevak -- a piece of software, that adds the notion of 'styles' to Pandoc.

It's basically a wrapper around Pandoc. It exploits the concept of YAML metadata blocks to the maximum.

The 'styles' provide a way to set all options for a Pandoc document conversion process with one line ("I want this document be an article/CV/notes/letter.").

You can regard this as more general abstraction than Pandoc templates. Styles are combinations of...

• ...Pandoc command line options,
• ...metadata settings,
• ...templates,
• ...instructions to run filters, and
• ...instructions to run pre/postprocessors.

These settings can be customized on a per output type as well as a per document basis. Styles can be...

• ...combined and
• ...can bear inheritance relations to each other.

panzer styles simplify Makefiles: they bundle everything concerning the look of a document in one place -- the YAML metadata (a block in the Markdown file, or a separate file).

You just add one line of metadata (style: ...) to your document, and it will be treated as a letter/article/CV/notebook or whatever.