+++ Sam Angove [Aug 18 11 12:26 ]: > 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.
I have to agree that YAML is overkill for our purposes, and adds a lot of complexity. _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
