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diff --git a/doc/customizing-pandoc.md b/doc/customizing-pandoc.md index fc0e57edd..62094e5ce 100644 --- a/doc/customizing-pandoc.md +++ b/doc/customizing-pandoc.md @@ -21,20 +21,12 @@ Pandoc comes with a default template for (almost) every output format. A template is a plain text file containing variables that are replaced by text generated by pandoc. For example, the variable `$body$` will be replaced by the document body, -and `$title$` by the title from metadata. Variables will -be automatically populated by the contents of like-named -metadata fields (with proper escaping). (See -[YAML metadata blocks](/MANUAL.html#extension-yaml_metadata_block) -for documentation on setting metafields in pandoc markdown -documents; the command line option -[`--metadata`](/MANUAL.html#option--metadata) can also be -used.) Values for variables can also be specified directly -from the command line using `--variable` (which does no escaping). +and `$title$` by the title from metadata. To look at the default template for an output format, you can do `pandoc -D FORMAT`, where `FORMAT` is replaced by the name of -the format. You can also replace the defaults with your -own custom templates, either by using the `--template` option +the format. For example `pandoc -D latex`. You can also use your +own template instead, either by using the `--template` option or by putting the custom template in your user data directory (on linux and macOS, `~/.pandoc/templates/`). |