Hello there, I am attempting to get HUGO to output a glossary. I have a situation where, I am wanting to set frontmatter variables according to a filename (rather than having to set it manually). For example; I have the following directory structure; \Glossary \Glossary\a \Glossary\a\aardvarrk.…

Your best bet is to automate it with a script (e.g. python) that manipulates the content file contents (frontmatter variables) accordingly.

Do you mean preprocess it? before hugo.exe gets to it?

Yes, editing the file with your custom script. If it’s auto-building like on dev environment, it will detect after modification.

Thanks pricestamp. It’s doable. I’d rather not have to do it that way if I dont have to. Can you (or anyone) think of a way that it can be done without preprocessing? (I know hugo is still pretty new, but I am sure I am not the only one who would want to achieve similar feats?) Thank you kindly for…

Related? [image] Hierarchical content As I said, I haven’t need to use this feature, as I use the structural hierarchy feature in Org mode. I simply tag an Org mode subtree with “foo” tag, and all posts under that subtree will have that tag.

Another option is to adapt this script to your use case: [image] Set frontmatter params in list template? support All pages does not have weight params in frontmatter. I want to set weight params in code based on file name. File name format is xx_String.md. xx is 2 dig…

Thanks zwbetz… Actually, that post is exactly what I am trying to do in another place of my website also…(was hopeing the answer to this question would lead me also to the answer for that question :slight_smile: ) I was hoping not to have to preprocess things (it increases complexity)…but it is be…

No prob. Also, if you use Git Bash for Windows, you should be able to use that script as-is (since Git Bash includes awk and many other UNIX-like utilities)

I use an WIn batch to generate my post directories. @echo off @set /p id=Enter Title: @set temp=%DATE:.=% @set title=%id: =_% @set dirname=%temp:~4,4%-%temp:~2,2%-%temp:~0,2%_%title% @set jahr=%temp:~4,4% @start /B hugo new post\%jahr%\%dirname%\index.md @ping -n 3 localhost> nul @mkdir content\p…

Set frontmatter variables from templates? How?

zwbetz October 18, 2018, 1:02am 7

Another option is to adapt this script to your use case:

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