I see from the discussion when adding metadata to pandoc was being discussed that gitit also uses the periods to close the front matter by the logic that sections constitutes a YAML document which takes that delimiter.

However this seems not to be the case in at least some other environments that use YAML for front matter, like Jekyll and Assemble.

For me, this means that the YAML front matter in pandoc-generated markdown docs doesn't get read correctly in, for example, 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.