On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Fletcher T. Penney <fletc...@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 _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
