From 29ab4d633556b381241f5eea6cce5d52472c3d27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borchmann <daniel@algebra20.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 17:29:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Always create standalone documents from markdown files

It's confusing me that the output of pandoc is a document fragment by default,
so let's instruct Emacs to generated complete, standalone documents instead.
---
 init.el | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 4968de4..48c120d 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -2915,8 +2915,10 @@ With given ARG, display files in `db/important-document-path’."
 (use-package markdown-mode
   :ensure t
   :commands (markdown-mode)
-  :init (setq markdown-use-pandoc-style-yaml-metadata t
-              markdown-command "pandoc"))
+  :init (progn
+          (setq markdown-use-pandoc-style-yaml-metadata t
+                markdown-command "pandoc --standalone")
+          (fset 'markdown-output-standalone-p #'(lambda () t))))
 
 (use-package pdf-occur
   :commands (pdf-occur-global-minor-mode))