Writing long documents, particularly technical documents, may require repetition of certain information. Hercule helps reduce repetition in line with DRY–don't repeat yourself–principles.

# Transclusions in Markdown John Appleseed (University of Technology) ## Abstract :[Abstract](src/abstract.md) ... 

Transcluding a document:

hercule src/transclusions-in-markdown.md -o final.md

Omitting the output argument allows the output to be piped into other text processing tools:

hercule src/transclusions-in-markdown.md | pandoc -o final.pdf