kristapsdz
Query about metadata
Hey, first off love this project, great work on this!
Anyhow I using the lowdown library and wonder if there is a way to add metadata that would enable you to prepend and append html to the output. I know that in MultiMarkdown, you have HTML Header and HTML Footer.
If there is no way to do this, is there an alternative solution to the problem ? would you know where I can make a patch in the code ? (where is the metadata handler ?), thanks for your time :).
EDIT: also wonder if there would be a way to override the tags that lowdown adds in, allowing you to provide your own boilerplate
There are such keys in other formatters (e.g., HTML Header), however, they're really poorly thought out: there's no mention as to where in the header they're noted, or whether they replace other media-specific metadata (e.g., title), etc. In general, the metadata concept of markdown is fragmented and poorly documented (with exception to lowdown ofc, which tries hard to document everything).
What I suggest is using lowdown to generate the "body" of the document, then writing your own header and footer and using a Makefile or similar to cat them together . E.g.,
% cat >output.html <<!!
<html>
<head>
<title>foo</title>
</head>
<body>
!!
% lowdown -thtml yourdoc.md >>output.html
% cat >>output.html <<!!
</body>
</html>
!!
This can be done using the library by passing FILE pointers and dumping into them before and after the renderer.
