Question about metadata

[krontzo]

I cannot get new lines to be preserved in multiline metadata values.

Indenting and two trailing spaces do not work (for me in any case).

MMD 6.0.4

[fletcher]

Correct -- metadata cleans up whitespace.

Preserving whitespace in metadata in prior versions of MMD sort of worked and sort of didn't. I'll consider a more consistent approach in the future.

[fletcher]

I tweaked MMD (and the v6 latex support files) in the develop branch to once again support latexauthor and latextitle metadata. These are handled as raw LaTeX strings, except that whitespace is still collapsed. You will need to use \\ in lieu of newlines if you want linebreaks to appear in the output.

title:	Plain
	Title
latex title:	Plain \\
	Title
latexconfig: article

Foo

Did you have another need for linebreaks inside of metadata?

[mn4367]

Why not allow them also in HTML for any metadata entry?

Our own post-processor already allows line breaks in any metadata field (two trailing whitespaces or only one trailing backslash) but it would be nice to have this builtin.

[djr555]

I don't know if this is the right place for this comment.
It seems that Latex Title: needs to be specified explicitly in metadata for pdf to work. Code suggests \latextitle should pick up \mytitle if Latex Title: is not specified, but it doesn't appear to do that. Hence QuickStart.mmd fails in "mmd6-tufte-handout-begin.tex" on mmd2pdf with:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \latextitle
l.3 \title{\latextitle}

[fletcher]

It would have been better to create a new issue, but this is fine.

Do you have an example that demonstrates the problem? I believe this was fixed sometime in the last few months, but perhaps not.

[krontzo]

Sorry for the delay to close this. The fix for Issue #86 also fixes this. Thank you @fletcher.