Custom <head> contents when exporting
Hi,
First of all - this is a wonderful app.
Secondly, I am writing a textbook comprised of a couple of hundred markdown files which I need to export as HTML. When exporting as HTML, is there a way to have Marked generate a custom element instead of the boilerplate that is included by default? It's just that this book is for the Kindle which requires certain metadata to be added to the element and doing it one file at a time is very very tedious.
Many thanks,
Garry
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 18 Dec, 2013 01:58 PM
Do you need styles to be included? In order to include styles, Marked
has to generate the HTML using its own template. If you don't need that,
you can use MMD Metadata to generate head metadata in the output (just
make sure the Strip MMD Metadata setting is off).
Metadata key: Metadata name
on the very first line of the document.
-Brett
2 Posted by Garry Pettet on 18 Dec, 2013 10:38 PM
Thanks Brett,
I hadn’t noticed the metadata property of MultiMarkdown - that’s excellent but isn’t quite what I need.
Basically, I need each page to have this format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/stylesheet.css" />
<title>My eBook</title>
</head>
<body>
Output HTML from Marked pasted here
</body>
</html>
Whereas currently it looks like this (using the MMD metadata you mentioned):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta name="creator" content="Marked.app"/>
<title>My eBook</title>
</head>
<body>
Output from Marked pasted here
</body>
</html>
If I don’t have the exact DOCTYPE and other bits in the HTML file then it won’t validate in the Kindle KindleGen application to build the eBook.
I’m sure this isn’t something I can change from my end but would it be possible to add a feature to Marked to write your own <head></head> element?
Thanks in advance,
Garry
Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 18 Dec, 2013 10:49 PM
It's potentially feasible, but probably not something I'm going to do.
It would be far too easy to allow invalid markup and create documents
that would only increase my support queue.
What you're looking for is an XHTML header, which is an outdated format
(as I'm sure you know). Your best bet is to use a custom processor that
creates this type of header by default. You could do it by hardcoding
the header and footer and then using any processor to output just the
"snippet" (as opposed to full document) version of the processed input.
If you need a hand doing this, let me know.
-Brett