The Status of Markdown

[Jan Erik Moström]

Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at alumni.duke.edu> 2005-10-29 14:56:


> 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).


It depends, right now I don't much use of it ... for the web stuff I just
discard it. For some other things I might use different keys.

Right now I'm mostly adding info for later use (and in some other stuff I'm
actually using it)


> 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 this format for different types of text files and the keys that I
always add are title, date, and type. I might add additional key for
different types of document.


> 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?


I don't know, but I think it might be better to add this as a "meta-format"
since the usuage of these keys are so specialized to different individuals.
But making libraries available for handling this would be nice.

                jem
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Jan Erik Moström, www.mostrom.pp.se