Embedded plaintext metadata formats

There are multiple ways of associating metadata in plaintext files, depending on the file format:

• The Front matter (used in Nanoc, Jekyll, …) can be used for any plaintext file format. It’s commonly YAML, but can also be TOML.

• AsciiDoc has its own metadata format.

• MultiMarkdown has its own way of specifying metadata.

• HTML has meta tags.

• …

Impact on Nanoc

Nanoc only supports front matter natively (with YAML), though with some preprocessor logic, other types of metadata can be extracted.

See also

List of external textual DSLs