Markdown-Discuss Digest, Vol 101, Issue 14

[Christoph Freitag]

Hi folks,

since started this thread I might as well end it!

I couldn't have put this any better:

> 

> Oh My God I actually agree with Big Bird here.

> 

> This whole discussion is getting far beyond what I think of as a 

> lightweight markup system. Personally I think metadata should be 

> processed separately from markdown data. Keep it "unixy" - one tool, one 

> job.

> 

> 

If you *must* include "non-obvious" metadata, such as arbitrary variable/value pairs, then why not resort to putting them in *comments*?

Using `<!-- ... -->` is an obvious choice, and in my personal adaptation of Markdown I'm using `//` at the beginning of lines, but really any comments syntax from one of the major programming languages out there could be used.

Just remember: KISS!

— Christoph