Separate new and repeating settings.

[georgjaehnig]

My name and closing note is always the same, so it shouldn't be redundant in all invoice details.

[georgjaehnig]

The second commit Bash script as alternative to makefile. allows me to

• keep the invoice-boilerplate repository in my ~/code dir, leave it untouched and constantly pull the newest commits
• set a symlink in my PATH dir ~/bin to ~/code/invoice-boilerplate/pandoc-invoice
• create my actual invoices in my ~/invoices and generate them with pandoc-invoice invoice1.yml my-base.yml
  • (where in my-base.yml are my actual settings like my name and city)

So the goal of this commit is to allow a setup where people can keep the repository checkout on their machine, keep it up to date with git pull and actually generate their invoices with it.

[mrzool]

This is a cool system but I prefer to keep things super simple and boilerplate code to a minimum, so that users are free to modify it to their taste and integrate it in their system as it's best for them (like you did here).

make is a standard Unix tool and integrates nicely with other tools, like text editors. Using it as a simple wrapper for the actual Pandoc command is the simplest, most elegant and less opinionated solution for this.