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@@ -1842,7 +1842,14 @@ A YAML metadata block is a valid YAML object, delimited by a line of three hyphens (`---`) at the top and a line of three hyphens (`---`) or three dots (`...`) at the bottom. A YAML metadata block may occur anywhere in the document, but if it is not at the beginning, it must be preceded by a blank -line. +line. (Note that, because of the way pandoc concatenates input files when +several are provided, you may also keep the metadata in a separate YAML file +and pass it to pandoc as an argument, along with your markdown files: + + pandoc chap1.md chap2.md chap3.md metadata.yaml -s -o book.html + +Just be sure that the YAML file begins with `---` and ends with `---` or +`...`.) Metadata will be taken from the fields of the YAML object and added to any existing document metadata. Metadata can contain lists and objects (nested |