Package: pandoc Version: 1.19.2.4~dfsg-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello Debian Haskell Group! Thanks a lot for maintaining this really nice markup converter in Debian! The package is very useful and having it in Debian is greatly appreciated.
While using it, I found that YAML metadata fields are useful for keeping some metadata about a markdown document in a compact block between a pair of "---" lines. So far so good. But, after reading the documentation, I seem to understand that (at least for the LaTeX, and hence PDF, output and for the HTML5 output) there is no YAML field suitable for inserting a notice (with customizable style) at the beginning (between title and TOC) or at the end of a document. This notice may possibly be useful to state the copyright and license terms for the document; it may also be used to state other pieces of information that should be displayed in a special area at the beginning or at the end of the document. Well, I found out that adding support for this feature is really easy: one just needs to modify the templates used for LaTeX and HTML5 outputs. I prepared a patch for these two templates, supporting two new YAML fields named "front-notice" and "back-notice". Since I think this feature may be useful for other users, I would like to see my patch applied to the official default templates. The patch is attached to this bug report: as you can see, it's almost trivial. Maybe it's so trivial that it is not even copyrighted. At any rate, in case it should turn out to be copyrighted by me, I hereby release it under the same terms as pandoc (that is to say, under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later). Please apply my patch to the Debian package and forward my wishlist bug report upstream. Thanks for your time and dedication! Bye. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages pandoc depends on: ii libc6 2.26-4 ii libffi6 3.2.1-8 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-1.2 ii liblua5.1-0 5.1.5-8.1+b2 ii libluajit-5.1-2 2.1.0~beta3+dfsg-5.1 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-8 ii libyaml-0-2 0.1.7-2 ii pandoc-data 1.19.2.4~dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 pandoc recommends no packages. Versions of packages pandoc suggests: pn context <none> ii pandoc-citeproc 0.10.5.1-1+b1 ii texlive-latex-extra 2017.20180110-1 ii texlive-latex-recommended 2017.20180110-1 pn texlive-luatex <none> ii texlive-xetex 2017.20180110-1 pn wkhtmltopdf <none> -- no debconf information
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