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.
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
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