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 gitit also uses the periods 
<https://github.com/jgm/gitit/blob/22b7f66c79068a7da3a44d3ada8e5133ea334d95/README.markdown> 
to close the front matter by the logic that sections constitutes a YAML 
document which takes that delimiter. 
<http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#marker/document%20end/>

However this seems not to be the case in at least some other environments 
that use YAML for front matter, like Jekyll 
<http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/> and Assemble 
<http://assemble.io/docs/YAML-front-matter.html>.

For me, this means that the YAML front matter in pandoc-generated markdown 
docs doesn't get read correctly in, for example, MacDown 
<https://macdown.uranusjr.com>, 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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