1 Now that I have implemented a \[[!ymlfront ...]] directive, I would like to remove support for the old "---" delimited format, because
3 * it is fragile (easily breakable)
8 > Well, I don't have much standing since I have been too lame to integrate
9 > ymlfront into ikiwiki yet. Buy, my opinion is, I liked the old
10 > format of putting the YAML literally at the front of the file. It
11 > seemed to allow parsing the file as YAML, using any arbitrary YAML
12 > processer. And it was nice how it avoided boilerplate. --[[Joey]]
14 >> The old delimited format also has the advantage of being remarkably similar to the
15 >> [MultiMarkDown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/users_guide/multimarkdown_syntax_guide/)
16 >> way of including metadata in documents. The only difference is that MMD doesn't expect the
17 >> triple-dash separators, but I'm thinking about submitting a patch to MMD to actually support
20 >>> Yes, the idea was to allow the file to be parsed as YAML, you're right. I just found that I tended to have problems when people used "---" for horizontal rules. However, I have also found that trying to keep it solely as an IkiWiki directive doesn't work either, since sometimes the meta-data I need also contained "]]" which broke the parsing of the directive.
21 >>> So I have decided to go for a compromise, and make the delimiter configurable, rather than hardcoded as "---"; the triple-dash is the default, but it can be configured to be something else instead. I haven't pushed the change yet, but I have written it, and it seems to work. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
23 >>>> I'm not sure about what kind of problems you're meeting with "---" being used
24 >>>> for horizontal rules: isn't it sufficient to just check that (1) the triple-dash
25 >>>> is the first thing in the page and (2) there are only YAML-style assignments
26 >>>> (and no blank lines) between the two markers? Check #2 would also be enough to
27 >>>> support MMD-style metadata, which means (a) no start marker and (b) empty line
28 >>>> to mark the end of the metadata block. Would this be supported by the plugin?
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