Extract header information from md

pandocPipeline/pandocPipeline.bat

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ set editor=%USERNAME%
 set title = 
 set file = none 
 set ending = tex
+set "_="
 ::path to this script
 set script= %~dp0 
 set version= 1.0
@@ -26,22 +27,6 @@ IF NOT "%1"=="" (
     IF "%1"=="--version" (
         goto :version
     )
-    IF "%1"=="-u" (
-        SET editor=%2
-        SHIFT
-    )
-    IF "%1"=="-user" (
-        SET editor=%2
-        SHIFT
-    )
-    IF "%1"=="-t" (
-        SET title=%2
-        SHIFT
-    )
-    IF "%1"=="--title" (
-        SET title=%2
-        SHIFT
-    )
     IF "%1"=="-f" (
         SET file=%2
         SHIFT
@@ -64,8 +49,23 @@ IF NOT "%1"=="" (
 
 :program
 ::check if file to parse was given
-IF %file%==none (goto :errorfile)
+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]:" (
+        set title=%%H
+    )
+    If "%%~G" == "[Author]:" (
+        set editor=%%H
+    ) 
+)
+set title=%title:~3,-1%
+set editor=%editor:~3,-1%
+goto :selection
+
+:selection
 IF %ending%==pdf (goto :program_tex) 
 IF %ending%==docx (goto :program_docx) ELSE (goto :program_other)
 
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ set picture=%picture:\=/%
 set pandocenv=%script%pandoc_latex_environment.py
 set pandocenv=%pandocenv: =%
 ::fill header with appropriate information
-sed -i 's,Editor:.*,Editor: '%editor%' \\\\\\\\,' %header% 
-sed -i 's,Title:.*,Title: '%title%',' %header% 
+sed -i 's,Editor:.*,Editor: '"%editor%"' \\\\\\\\,' %header% 
+sed -i 's,Title:.*,Title: '"%title%"',' %header% 
 sed -i 's,textwidth]{.*,textwidth]{'%picture%'}},' %header%
 ::execute pandoc
 cat %file%.md %header% | sed -E -f %sedfile%| pandoc --filter %pandocenv% --number-sections --toc -i - -o %file%.pdf
@@ -107,10 +107,14 @@ echo Usage: pandocPipeline [OPTION] [COMMAND]
 echo    -h, --help              show this help screen
 echo    -f, --file              specify filename without extension
 echo    -e, --ending            spefify target file format
-echo    -u, --user=%USERNAME%       enter name of file editor set between "" (only for target format pdf)
-echo    -t, --title             enter title of document set between "" (only for target format pdf)
 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)
 goto :end 
 
 :version