Is There a Markdown Syntax for Titles, Author, Etc?

Question

I just saw a video on Markdown which uses a percent sign (%) to add a title and author to a document. Here is the video clip (strating from the relevant section): https://youtu.be/hpAJMSS8pvs?t=5m30s

I have not been able to reproduce this feature, though (I've tried in different markdown editors -- like StackEdit).

Is this a different version of Markdown? Do I just need a different editor?

In short, any idea how to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, some markdown engines support this using metadata blocks.

The following is called yaml_metadata_block by pandoc (this format is supported by Jekyll, StackEdit and quite a few others):

---
title: my title
author: my name
date: today
---

or equivalently:

---
title: my title
author: my name
date: today
...

---

Pandoc also supports the pandoc_title_block format:

% title
% author(s) (separated by semicolons)
% date