[Feature Req] YAML for --latex-engine

[ghost]

Hi, as part of converting a document from markdown to pdf eg.

pandoc source.md -o pdf.pdf

we need to add --latex-engine=lualatex for instance to get lualatex

Can we have a YAML metadata for the same thing, like it is with other commands

---
title: title
latex-engine: lualatex
...

[mpickering]

This sort of thing has been suggested lots in the past but there is an unresolved issue. Currently no information apart from the document AST is passed back from the reader to the main program which makes it impossible to affect further execution in this way.

[ghost]

Okay thanks for the reply. And sorry, I searched through the last 3-4 pages and could find similar but not exact. Apologies for the replica.

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Matthew Pickering
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This sort of thing has been suggested lots in the past but there is an unresolved issue. Currently no information apart from the document AST is passed back from the reader to the main program which makes it impossible to affect further execution in this way.

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[ghost]

Would a dotfile in the current directory work?

[mb21]

Closing in favour of #4627