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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2021-06-02 22:48:56 -0600 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2021-06-02 22:48:56 -0600 |
| commit | a54a19cca5d00378f6103d0bb5a6e3ca2dcfef3c (patch) | |
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MANUAL: more details and a useful link for YAML syntax.
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diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index b0c5962c4..b4f74b8c4 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -4199,6 +4199,12 @@ or block-level formatting: It consists of two paragraphs. ... +The literal block after the `|` must be indented relative to the +line containing the `|`. If it is not, the YAML will be invalid +and pandoc will not interpret it as metadata. For an overview +of the complex rules governing YAML, see the [Wikipedia entry on +YAML syntax]. + Template variables will be set automatically from the metadata. Thus, for example, in writing HTML, the variable `abstract` will be set to the HTML equivalent of the Markdown in the `abstract` field: @@ -4261,6 +4267,7 @@ following restrictions apply: if the link definition is somewhere else in the document. [YAML escape sequence]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2776092 +[Wikipedia entry on YAML syntax]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Syntax ## Backslash escapes |