Re: YAML closing delimiter

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Best solution would be to ask these other processors to
support ... as closing delimiter -- since after all this
is a standard YAML.  (Another advantage is that if you
use ---, many markdown syntax highlighters will highlight the
last line of your metadata as a title, which looks bad.)

+++ John Muccigrosso [Oct 13 15 09:11 ]:
>   Pandoc uses
>   ...
>   as its closing delimiter in the YAML block. It will also read
>   ---
>    as one.
>   I see from the discussion when adding metadata to pandoc was being
>   discussed that [1]gitit also uses the periods to close the front matter
>   by the logic that sections constitutes a YAML document which [2]takes
>   that delimiter.
>   However this seems not to be the case in at least some other
>   environments that use YAML for front matter, like [3]Jekyll and
>   [4]Assemble.
>   For me, this means that the YAML front matter in pandoc-generated
>   markdown docs doesn't get read correctly in, for example, [5]MacDown,
>   which I use as a markdown editor, since it uses Jekyll to handle the
>   front matter.
>   I raise this because I wonder how common a problem this is, and what
>   the best solution might be.
>
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>References
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>   1. https://github.com/jgm/gitit/blob/22b7f66c79068a7da3a44d3ada8e5133ea334d95/README.markdown
>   2. http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#marker/document end/
>   3. http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/
>   4. http://assemble.io/docs/YAML-front-matter.html
>   5. https://macdown.uranusjr.com/
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