title
, author
, date
allow identification of basic aspects of the document. Included in PDF metadata through LaTeX and ConTeXt. These can be set through a pandoc title block, which allows for multiple authors, or through a YAML metadata block:
---
author:
- Aristotle
- Peter Abelard
...
Note that if you just want to set PDF or HTML metadata, without including a title block in the document itself, you can set the title-meta
, author-meta
, and date-meta
variables. (By default these are set automatically, based on title
, author
, and date
.)
subtitle
document subtitle, included in HTML, EPUB, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and docx documents
abstract
document summary, included in LaTeX, ConTeXt, AsciiDoc, and docx documents
keywords
list of keywords to be included in HTML, PDF, ODT, pptx, docx and AsciiDoc metadata; repeat as for author
, above
subject
document subject, included in ODT, PDF, docx and pptx metadata
description
document description, included in ODT, docx and pptx metadata. Some applications show this as Comments
metadata.
category
document category, included in docx and pptx metadata
Additionally, any root-level string metadata, not included in ODT, docx or pptx metadata is added as a custom property. The following YAML metadata block for instance: