NAME

       pandoc-citeproc-preamble - insert a preamble before pandoc-citeproc's bibliography

SYNOPSIS

       pandoc-citeproc-preamble

DESCRIPTION

       pandoc-citeproc-preamble is a JSON filter for pandoc(1) which inserts a preamble before
       the output that the pandoc-citeproc(1) filter appends to the document.  This preamble
       might include a heading (e.g. "Bibliography") and/or raw markup to format the bibliography
       for the output format.

USAGE

       Add --filter pandoc-citeproc-preamble somewhere after --filter pandoc-citeproc, e.g.

           % pandoc -s --filter pandoc-citeproc --bibliography=~/doc/mine.bib \
               --filter pandoc-citeproc-preamble \
               ~/doc/my_essay.mdwn -o ~/my_essay.pdf

FILES

       ~/.pandoc/citeproc-preamble/default.FORMAT
           Default citeproc preamble for Pandoc output format FORMAT (e.g. "latex").

       To override this, you can set document metadata like this:

           % pandoc ... --filter pandoc-citeprocpreamble \
               -M citeproc-preamble=~/mypreamble.tex ...

RATIONALE

       One motivation for authoring with Pandoc is that one's input files are agnostic with
       regard to the output format to which they will eventually be compiled.  For example, it
       should not be necessary to include LaTeX code in one's input file in order to format the
       bibliography.  The input file might also be compiled to HTML.

       However, when compiling to PDF, formatting code is usually required in order to have the
       entries of pandoc-citeproc's bibliography line up with each other; by default, all entries
       except the first will be indented.  Another common customisation is to set up a hanging
       indent for bibliography entries.

       Since pandoc-citeproc(1) doesn't provide any facility to add formatting control code to
       its output, pandoc-citeproc-preamble is necessary to avoid the user being forced to add
       their control code to the end of their input files, thereby losing the input file's
       agnosticity with regard to output format.

AUTHOR

       Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

SEE ALSO

       pandoc(1), pandoc-citeproc(1)