YAML option for -p --preserve-tabs

[sjackman]

I'm using pandoc via the R package rmarkdown, so I can't set command line options of pandoc, but I can set YAML configuration options. Is there an equivalent YAML option to get the behaviour of --preserve-tabs?

[jgm]

+++ Shaun Jackman [Nov 05 14 14:23 ]:

I'm using pandoc via the R package rmarkdown, so I can't set command
line options of pandoc, but I can set YAML configuration options. Is
there an equivalent YAML option to get the behaviour of
--preserve-tabs?

No.

[sjackman]

Feature request?

[jjallaire]

You can add arbitrary pandoc command line arguments using YAML as described here http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/html_document_format.html#pandoc-arguments

[sjackman]

Success! Thanks, JJ.

output:
  html_document:
    pandoc_args: "--preserve-tabs"

[sjackman]

@jgm This pandoc_args solution solves my original problem. So, feel free to close this issue if you like. I do think it would be helpful to be able to set arbitrary pandoc options from the YAML header of a markdown file.

[sjackman]

I'm assuming here that output / html_document / pandoc_args is specific to rmarkdown::render.

[jjallaire]

Yes indeed it is.

[mb21]

Closing in favour of #4627