Frontmatter syntax in MultiMarkdown?

[mdbraber]

When using frontmatter in Markdown files, I noticed DT and DTTG won’t render the first line directly after the second set of ‘3 dashes’. But it will render if there’s an empty line between the dashes and the rest of the content. I can’t find if this is according to MMD spec or an error. A linebreak is not needed in most other Markdown related tools I use.

Is an empty line break after the --- necessary to render content?

This does not render “Content”

---
title:Test
---
Content

This does render “Content”

---
title:Test
---

Content

[pete31]

@mdbraber

This does not render “Content”

---
title:Test
---
Content

This does render “Content” over here. I have hidden preference IndexRawMarkdownSource enabled - maybe that’s the difference?

[mdbraber]

In generalizing my example I missed an important point apparently - the fact that I’m using something which MMD recognizes as metadata fields.

This does not render “excerpt:: Content”

---
title:Test
---
excerpt:: Content

This does render “excerpt:: Content”

---
title:Test
---

excerpt:: Content

This is what I’m actually using. And thanks to @pete31’s pointer it seems I’m ‘interfering’ with the MMD metadata field spec (I’m using these fields for Dataview in Obsidian). Apparently this is what MMD spec requires (see below). I’ll find a way around it. I’m not a fan of the MMD spec, but at least I found out what my ‘problem’ is. Thanks for the hint @pete31.

MultiMarkdown has support for metadata, meaning that you can include information about a document that is not necessarily part of the document contents.

To use metadata, simply add information to the top of a Markdown file:

Title:	A New MultiMarkdown Document  
Author: Fletcher T. Penney	
		John Doe  
Date:	July 25, 2005  

The key is the text before the colon, and the data is the text after the colon. In the above example, notice that there are two lines of information for the Author key. If you end a line with “space-space-newline”, the newline will be included when converted to other formats.

There must not be any whitespace above the metadata, and the metadata block ends with the first whitespace only line. The metadata is stripped from the document before it is passed on to the syntax parser.

While not required, I recommend including two spaces at the end of each line of metadata. In this way, if you pass your document through a regular version of Markdown, the metadata will be properly formatted as plain text with line breaks, rather than joined into a single run-on paragraph.

(via: MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide - fletcher/MultiMarkdown GitHub Wiki)