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Description
When writing to a (custom) html template, pandoc does not set <title> despite emitting Defaulting to '<basename>' as the title.
However, I am glad with the current behaviour (i.e. warn that a title is needed + not setting the title + advice on how to set the title using pandoc). I think setting the title automatically would be too invasive (e.g. I want to set the title later using js).
template.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
$body$
</body>
</html>
source file:
echo hello world > test.md
convert to html:
pandoc -f commonmark -t html5 --template=template.html test.md
[WARNING] This document format requires a nonempty <title> element.
Defaulting to 'test' as the title.
To specify a title, use 'title' in metadata or --metadata title="...".
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>hello world</p>
</body>
</html>
pandoc -v
pandoc 3.1.11.1
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
User data directory: C:\Users\A141800\AppData\Roaming\pandoc
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