I don't know that much about markdown, and I know there are many different flavours. pandoc can make use of title, author, and date info in a markdown file -- from what i cna tell, it expects a "title block atthe head of a file (http://pandoc.org/README.html#extension-pandoc_title_block)
% author % title % date I have a simple, inadequate patch to ox-md-template that inserts this info. It's a start maybe for a better patch? m
diff --git a/lisp/ox-md.el b/lisp/ox-md.el index e4291e5..321539a 100644 --- a/lisp/ox-md.el +++ b/lisp/ox-md.el @@ -468,12 +468,26 @@ holding export options." ;; footnotes with at least a blank line. (org-trim (org-html-inner-template (concat "\n" contents "\n") info))) +;;;; template (defun org-md-template (contents info) "Return complete document string after Markdown conversion. CONTENTS is the transcoded contents string. INFO is a plist used as a communication channel." - contents) - + (concat + ;;(message (concat info)) + (and (plist-get info :with-author) + (let ((author (org-export-data (plist-get info :author) info))) + (and (org-string-nw-p author) + (concat "\% " author "\n")))) + (and (plist-get info :with-title) + (concat "\% " (org-export-data (plist-get info :title) info) "\n")) + (and (plist-get info :with-date) + (let ((date (org-export-data (org-export-get-date info) info))) + (and (org-string-nw-p date) + (concat "\% " date "\n")))) + + contents) + ) ;;; Interactive function
