Usage of variables in theme

Hi Team,

Here is a question about the usage of variables inside the theme file.

I would like to accomplish the following: depending on a variable defined inside a document, chose a specific background image for my title page.

For example, my .adoc file contains ":location: Sydney"
And my Theme file contains: title_page_background_image: image:/data/front_page_{location}.png[]

I was expecting that "front_page_{location}.png" would get substituted to "front_page_Sydney.png". However, in practice this does not happen. NOTE: this does work for the "include::" directive inside an .adoc file.

I also had a look at using a custom variable inside the theme file. Along the lines of:

setlocation: {location}
title_page_background_image: image:/data/front_page_$setlocation.png[]

Unfortunately, this doesn't work either. It does work if I do "setlocation: Sydney"; but that defeats the purpose.

Is this a current limitation of the software? Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Marc.

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Dan,

Thanks for your quick reply. I am indeed talking about the theme file used by asciidoctor-pdf.

The theme file does seem to be able to reference AsciiDoc document attributes defined in the document.

For example, I am currently successfully using:

page_recto_left_content: '{project_name}'
page_verso_right_content: '{project_name}'

...whereby :project_name: is defined inside the document itself.

Marc.

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Anyone know if support for variable references for asciidoctor pdf is planned?
Dynamically creating my documentations header/footer information with version and revision number, release date etc. would make my life so much easier...

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Wow ... thanks for the super-fast reply.
I did miss this part of the pdf documentation (which by the way is really great!). Works like a charm. I'm happy!
Thanks!

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