The Status of Markdown

[Fletcher T. Penney]

It looks like you chose the same format for metadata as I did when I  
wrote MultiMarkdown.  I'm not sure how you handle it, but  
MultiMarkdown uses the metadata to create the title for the XHTML  
document (if creating a "complete" XHTML document (body, header, etc)  
and not just a snippet of XHTML to be included in a larger document).

Then, the metadata is used by my XSLT scripts to populate the title,  
author, date, keywords, etc in my LaTeX documents, so that  
information is placed in the appropriate places in my pdf files.

If enough people are using this idea, it might be nice to standardize  
some of the keys - for instance, I use Title, Date, Author, Keywords,  
Copyright for the obvious.  I use Format to specify "complete" if I  
want to generate the full XHTML and not just a snippet.  I use  
HeaderLevel if I want to increase the top level header a certain  
amount (start with <h2> rather than <h1> for instance - this comes  
about because I use OmniOutliner to write my documents, so the the  
header code ( `#`) is generated for me)

Is anyone else out there doing something like this?  Is there enough  
support for it to petition it's inclusion in the "real" Markdown, or  
should it remain a custom only feature?

Fletcher

http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown


On Oct 29, 2005, at 3:38 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote:


> Lst Recv <listrecv at gmail.com> 2005-10-28 20:50:

>

>

>> * How to stucture the Markdown.  Beyond headings, I'd like to

>> semanticaly annotate different parts.  (This also helps with

>> formatting, as above.)  Should I just create my own tags (eg

>> <reminder> <example> <warning>)?

>>

>

> I don't know exactly what you want but I'm doing something along  

> these lines,

> at the top of the each document I have a simple header with some meta

> information. My solution to this is to wrap some additional code  

> around the

> call to Markdown that removes this info before sending it to  

> Markdown, I can

> then use the meta information as I see fit. An example can be found at

> <http://blog.mostrom.pp.se/?p=63>

>

>                 jem

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Fletcher T. Penney
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I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats
on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.
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