Metadata syntax (was Universal syntax for Markdown)

[Sam Angove]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Fletcher T. Penney
<fletcher at fletcherpenney.net> wrote:

>

> The MMD format for metadata was actually taken from the Blosxom software

> that you mention.


And before that, almost certainly taken from the Internet Message Format [1]).

MultiMarkdown improves on the IETF version from a user's point of view
(and becomes more Markdownish) by making it legal to do lazy
line-folding. The result is something that's simple to write, simple
to parse, and exactly what a normal person would come up with if you
asked them to put some metadata at the top of a text file.

I think it's a perfect fit for Markdown.

YAML, by contrast, is complicated and outrageously heavy to include as
a dependency -- data merging, references, different types of folding,
user-defined data-types... you've got to be kidding.

[1]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-2.2