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| author | William Lupton <wlupton@broadband-forum.org> | 2021-08-19 14:18:54 +0100 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2021-08-19 10:37:24 -0700 |
| commit | 5159d6653b0e04f03066a50794bc24195bdf81aa (patch) | |
| tree | d230fd6dc8a186e1d5e8274e929b31947b0f9f6e /MANUAL.txt | |
| parent | 5616d00d09d3a940364befd380dde328c6ac1a08 (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-5159d6653b0e04f03066a50794bc24195bdf81aa.tar.gz | |
Clarify that each YAML block is a separate YAML document
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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index 877021cd8..c94b69289 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -4179,6 +4179,10 @@ A document may contain multiple metadata blocks. If two metadata blocks attempt to set the same field, the value from the second block will be taken. +Each metadata block is handled internally as an independent YAML document. +This means, for example, that any YAML anchors defined in a block cannot be +referenced in another block. + When pandoc is used with `-t markdown` to create a Markdown document, a YAML metadata block will be produced only if the `-s/--standalone` option is used. All of the metadata will appear in a single block |