How can I format blog article titles (the h1 tags)?

[zahlman]

Apparently this was possible many years ago, but I can't figure it out now.

I'm using Markdown sources, and if I have my metadata like:

<!--
.. title:  Some formatted title
-->

On the front page of the blog, where this post is listed, I want the word "formatted" to appear with whatever basic formatting (bold, italic and/or inline code). But nothing seems to work. I tried Markdown syntax, rST syntax and raw HTML; all of these get rendered literally instead.

Is it possible? How?

[Kwpolska]

Not possible by default, you’d need to customize your templates to disable the HTML escaping. Note that titles appear in many contexts (e.g. the <title> tag, RSS, metadata) where formatting does not work well, so you might want to consider custom formatted_title metadata that is displayed in the post heading, with the title being used elsewhere.

[zahlman]

I managed to get set up with custom metadata - which also allows me to do custom formatting for multi-line titles while just joining the lines with an emdash in the <title> etc.

But the only way I found that I could actually access the custom formatted_title metadata in the templates is ${post.meta['en']['formatted_title']}. Surely it's meant to be simpler?

[Kwpolska]

You could do ${post.meta('formatted_title')}. Won’t be any simpler, we don’t expose custom metadata as properties.

[zahlman]

Ah, the meta attribute is some custom type then. I think the matter is resolved overall.