Option to suppress rendering of Jekyll / Octopress front matter

[matt_thomson]

Posts in Jekyll start with front matter, a blob of JSON defining metadata for the post:

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/frontmatter/

MarkdownPad tries to render this along with the rest of the content, which looks a bit odd. Would it be possible to add an option to hide this front matter from the rendered view (while keeping it in the editor)?

[evanw]

Thanks for the post. Yes, this is definitely possible, and I'll be working on it for a future update.

Thanks!

[scantcircle]

Hi, this would be a great feature to have. Any estimates on when it might be available. I just bought the Pro version for writing Jekyll Blog posts.

Might make sense to have Jekyll section in the Options. I know its important to avoid feature creep but Markdown Pad 2 is a very competitive option to offerings like prose.io. This could be another major selling point for Markdown Pad 2 Pro.

Thanks!

[evanw]

This feature will be included in the version 2.4 release of MarkdownPad, which should be available in the near future.

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[evanw]

I'm looking for feedback:

Should the option to ignore YAML Front-matter only affect LivePreview, or should it also remove it from exported HTML, PDF, etc.?

[NickD]

I think it might be nice to have an option for this, because it might be desirable to export the front matter in certain circumstances. My own preference would be to ignore it by default but have an option to include it in the prefs. So basically a new preference defaulting to 'ignore'.

[Ulf]

As I can see, the option is available in the perferences, but the output is only ignored in the preview. I'd prefer to have it ignored either everywhere or nowhere, as IMO the result should be as similar as possible in all the outputs.
Maybe an interesting solution would be to put the yaml output into its own div block with an "yaml" class. So It even if it is rendered, it can be ignored via a CSS rule.

[cpriest]

Would it be possible to use YAML front-matter to set the stylesheet to be used for a particular document?

Is this already possible some other way?

[evanw]

@cpriest No, this is not currently possible. MarkdownPad can hide YAML from the rendered output, but it doesn't currently inspect the contents of the YAML to make decisions.

I've made a note of this and I'll see if I can come up with a way to selectively identify stylesheets from within a Markdown document. I'm also considering adding a "Quick Stylesheet Selector" (akin to the Quick Markdown Processor Selector), which might also give you the functionality you're seeking?

[cpriest]

I guess ideally it would be nice to set it per document, similar to VIM's file header functionality, if your familiar...

;
; vi:ts=4:sw=4:noexpandtab
;

I'm thinking since you've got the ignore YAML header stuff, could use it instead to allow per-document options?

The above sets tabspace (ts) to 4, space width (sw)? to 4 and sets noexpandtab for that document only (in VIM)