Merge Template Variables

8.3 Merge Template Variables

So Merge Template Literals provide the fixed content of your output.

And Merge Template Commands control the overall flow of the processing.

But how do you actually specify what data to insert, and where to insert it?

That’s the job for Merge Template Variables.

Following is an illustration of the basic syntax.


<p>Note Title: =$title$=</p>

<p>Body: </p>

=$body$=

If you’re unfamiliar with HTML, <p> and </p> are the ways you start and end a paragraph.

So the way you indicate the placement of field values is by placing =$ and $= around a field label.

BTW, capitalization, spacing and punctuation are not significant when specifying a field label. So =$publication-date$= will work just as well as =$Publication Date$=.

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