Ah, I make it compile partial HTML (just page content), and stick that into my own HTML page template(s) (written as HEREDOCS :D). That's part of the joy of us

Ah, I make it compile partial HTML (just page content), and stick that into my own HTML page template(s) (written as HEREDOCS :D). That's part of the joy of using Pandoc. I can pipeline it, no problem. Like this: cf. https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/templating.sh#L219 https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite/blob/master/bin/templ... cat "${watch_dir}/sources/${url_slug}" | __shite_templating_compile_source_to_html ${file_type} | __shite_templating_wrap_content_html ${content_type} ${watch_dir} | __shite_templating_wrap_page_html \ > "${watch_dir}/public/${html_url_slug}" Templates look like this. Notice the $(cat -) in the middle. That's how the HTML content produced by Pandoc gets injected in the middle of everything else. shite_template_common_default_page() { local maybe_page_id=${shite_page_data[page_id]:+"id=\"${shite_page_data[page_id]}\""} local maybe_canonical_url=${shite_page_data[canonical_url]:+"<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"${shite_page_data[canonical_url]}\">"} cat <<EOF <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> $(shite_template_common_meta) $(shite_template_common_links) ${maybe_canonical_url} </head> <body ${maybe_page_id}> <div id="the-very-top" class="stack center box"> $(shite_template_common_header) <main id="main"> $(cat -) </main> $(shite_template_common_footer) </div> </body> </html> EOF } edit: substantiate Pandoc's role.