Scripting News: File-level metadata in Markdown?

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Monday September 17, 2018; 10:56 AM EDT

File-level metadata in Markdown?#

I wonder if anyone's thought about a way to add file-level metadata to a Markdown document. This just came up in a project I'm working on, but it's not the first time I've encountered it. #
In Frontier's website framework, we used a # to delimit a value, something like: #

#title "My Test Page" #

We borrowed the idea from C on Unix in the 70s:#

#include "mymacros.h"#

We have the same thing in HTML and OPML, in the <head> section:#

<title>My Test Page</title>#

The directives are not part of the rendering. You don't see them when you read the document. But the values are available to software processing the document.#
It seems since we're in The Age of JSON, something in JSON, delimited by a # might be appropriate? #

#metadata = {#

title: "Hello World",#
tags: ["fun", "wisdom", "greetings"]#
}#

I started a thread on this on the Scripting News repo.#

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