diff --git a/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.bat b/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.bat
index 1530c05..a448410 100644
--- a/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.bat
+++ b/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.bat
@@ -54,15 +54,13 @@ IF %file%==none (goto :errorfile) ELSE (goto :extract_metadata)
 :extract_metadata
 set title=%file%
 For /F "UseBackQ Tokens=1,*" %%G In ("%file%.md") Do (
-    If "%%~G" == "[Title]:" (
+    If "%%~G" == "title:" (
         set title=%%H
     )
-    If "%%~G" == "[Author]:" (
+    If "%%~G" == "author:" (
         set editor=%%H
     ) 
 )
-set title=%title:~3,-1%
-set editor=%editor:~3,-1%
 goto :selection
 
 :selection
@@ -109,12 +107,8 @@ echo    -f, --file              specify filename without extension
 echo    -e, --ending            spefify target file format
 echo Pipeline is optimized for target format pdf and docx but works with others as well
 echo Possible fileformats see: https://pandoc.org/diagram.svgz?v=20230203095535 
-echo Author is by default %USERNAME%
-echo to change the author write follwing in your markdown file
-echo [Author]: # (your name)
-echo Title is by default the filename
-echo to change the title write follwing in your markdown file
-echo [Title]: # (document title)
+echo Author is by default %USERNAME% to change the author add the author to the metadata in your markdown file
+echo Title is by default the filename to change the title add the title to the metadata in your markdown file
 goto :end 
 
 :version
diff --git a/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.sh b/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.sh
index d28b17f..18f6e77 100755
--- a/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.sh
+++ b/pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.sh
@@ -24,12 +24,8 @@ echo Possible fileformats see: https://pandoc.org/diagram.svgz?v=20230203095535
 echo Examples:
 echo md -\> pdf : pandocPipeline -f dateiname -e pdf 
 echo md -\> docx : pandocPipeline -f dateiname -e docx
-echo Author is by default $editor 
-echo to change the author write follwing in your markdown file
-echo \[Author\]: \# \(your name\)
-echo Title is by default the filename
-echo to change the title write follwing in your markdown file
-echo \[Title\]: \# \(document title\)
+echo Author is by default $editor to change the author add the author to the metadata in your markdown file
+echo Title is by default the filename to change the title add the title to the metadata in your markdown file
 }
 
 Errorfile() {
@@ -74,10 +70,10 @@ if [[ -z "$file" ]]; then
     Errorfile
     exit
 title=$file
-editor=$(grep '\[Author\]: # \(.*\)' $file.md)
-editor=${editor:13:-1}
-title=$(grep '\[Title\]: # \(.*\)' $file.md)
-title=${title:13:-1}
+editor=$(grep 'author: .*' $file.md)
+editor=${editor:8}
+title=$(grep 'title: .*' $file.md)
+title=${title:7}
 if [[ "$ending" == "pdf" ]]; then
     header=$script/header.md
     sedfile=$script/body.sed