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.

Possible duplicate of [Markdown metadata format](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44215896/markdown-metadata-format) — Waylan, Nov 10 '17 at 17:25

mb21 · Answer 1 · 2019-09-04T14:39:42.687

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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

edited Sep 04 '19 at 14:39

answered Nov 10 '17 at 11:38

mb21

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I favour the `Yaml` block notation to the `pandoc` notation as you see in each line where you are (e.g. `title: ...` and not just `% super titlename`) – Timo Jul 14 '20 at 06:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 02 '20 at 02:30

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There is no such standard syntax for Title or Author. But you can always mention them below your first Heading.

I prefer in this way

HEADING - I

Title - Documentation
Author - Saumitra Jagdale
Created On - 2 October 2020

answered Oct 02 '20 at 02:30

Saumitra Jagdale

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

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HEADING - I

Title - Documentation Author - Saumitra Jagdale Created On - 2 October 2020

Title - Documentation
Author - Saumitra Jagdale
Created On - 2 October 2020