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Documented fact that you can put YAML metadata in a separate file.

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See #1412.
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@ -1842,7 +1842,14 @@ A YAML metadata block is a valid YAML object, delimited by a line of three
hyphens (`---`) at the top and a line of three hyphens (`---`) or three dots
(`...`) at the bottom. A YAML metadata block may occur anywhere in the
document, but if it is not at the beginning, it must be preceded by a blank
line.
line. (Note that, because of the way pandoc concatenates input files when
several are provided, you may also keep the metadata in a separate YAML file
and pass it to pandoc as an argument, along with your markdown files:
pandoc chap1.md chap2.md chap3.md metadata.yaml -s -o book.html
Just be sure that the YAML file begins with `---` and ends with `---` or
`...`.)
Metadata will be taken from the fields of the YAML object and added to any
existing document metadata. Metadata can contain lists and objects (nested