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Many Markdown dialects are adopting YAML metadata, so why not start a file with (for example) --- Dialect: GFM ---
by euroderf 4y ago
Many Markdown dialects are adopting YAML metadata, so why not start a file with (for example)
---
Dialect: GFM
---
- rcarmo 4y agoThat's what I do at taoofmac.com internally. The whole thing is a mix of Textile, Markdown and HTML
- toastal 4y agoAll dialects of Org Mode, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML files, ODF files, EXIF data on images support metadata in file--it's the norm. The fact that Markdown's spec doesn't support metadata by default and most "dialects" don't this ad hoc syntax (YAML of all broken things) shows that Markdown not suitable for most kinds of documents.