Extra Pandoc arguments in frontmatter

[jvsteiner]

I have several writing projects I am working on that have different requirements in terms of the "extra pandoc arguments" that are required during rendering. For example:

• I have different templates that are used.
• I have different pandoc filters in use which are applicable to different documents I am working on depending on the use case.
• For some documents, I wish to pass --variable titlepage=true when in others, I do not. (although I can work around this using a filter I wrote that allows me to include raw latex in a code block)

It would be ideal to also be able to include additional pandoc arguments on a per document basis. I suggest that it might be feasible to allow a frontmatter item, for example: additional-pandoc-args that would accept a list of string formatted arguments, which would be space separated and appended to the pandoc invocation on a per document basis. In the end, my frontmatter might look something like:

---
header-includes:
  - \usepackage{draftwatermark}
additional-pandoc-args:
  - --variable titlepage=true
  - --filter=scripts/my-filter.py
---

[jvsteiner]

In case anyone is interested, here is some templates I use that show how I use this feature: https://github.com/jvsteiner/pandoc-obsidian-templates

I made a PR: https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc/pull/213

[midas0441]

+1 for per-document YAML settings.... but, it doesn't look like this plugin is maintained anymore. Last update was v0.4.1 2 years ago?

[jvsteiner]

Indeed, I stopped using it partly for this reason. Now I use https://github.com/Taitava/obsidian-shellcommands instead to do everything I need. I made custom commands for all the pandoc calls I need, and it allows you to refer to yaml tag values in the shell command syntax, so I can do everything for pandoc using that plugin that I could previously with this one that was specifically for pandoc.