Universal syntax for Markdown

[John MacFarlane]

+++ Alan J. Hogan [Aug 15 11 18:51 ]:

> And yet in some cases it may be useful to define, in a Markdown-successor standard, the area in which such metadata may exist.

> 

> For instance, when I used Hyde, the format was always:

> 

> ---

> metadata: here

> more: meta

> ---



>From the YAML docs:

YAML uses three dashes (“---”) to separate documents within a stream.
Three dots ( “...”) indicate the end of a document without starting a new
one, for use in communication channels.

So a sensible format would be:

---
metadata: here
more: here
...

start markdown document.

John