I just came across these built in functions for obtaining page metadata here:
https://code.google.com/p/tridion-practice/wiki/BuiltInFunctionsForUseInHtmlTemplates For example: !GetFieldMetadata("Image")=Name: Image
I've never use them so don't have an example to work with and the guesses i've made so far to use this function hasn't worked.
My page has a metadata schema with the field 'page_title', so i'm trying to render this using:
@@GetFieldMetadata("page_title")@@
But this doesn't work. I've tried the usual varieties "Page.Metadata.page_title", "Page.Metadata.Fields.page_title"
If anyone one has a quick solution, great, failing that i'm going back over to to a c# tbb :)
Update: Added a comment to Nick's comment below.