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How to change document title when converting to HTML with Pandoc?

Let’s say we have input.md file:

# Name

Contents

— and we need to automatically rewrite it in HTML:

# pandoc --from markdown --to html input.md -o output.html
# cat ./output.html
<h1 id="name">Name</h1>
<p>Contents</p>

Now, we want Pandoc to prepend something like <head><title>Custom title</title></head> to output.html.

How to accomplish this?

The following approaches failed:

# pandoc --from markdown --to html --metadata title="Custom title" input.md -o output.html

# echo '{title: "Custom title"}' > metadata.json
# pandoc --from markdown --to html --metadata-file=metadata.json input.md -o output.html

Also, I am aware of --title command line option: it indeed creates <title> in my case, but writes Custom title – input there, and also adds a lot of styles (although the latter is not an issue itself).

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    Finally, a command line snippet solving my issue follows (great thanks to @mb21 for the answer and the comment above):

    # pandoc -s -V pagetitle="Custom title" input.md -o output.html

  2. 0

    You’re missing the -s or --standalone option:

    pandoc -s --metadata title="Custom title" input.md -o output.html

    Or instead of the --metadata flag just do:

    ---
title: Custom title
---

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