Post not shown if title contains : (colon)

[Heliosmaster]

in the YAML front matter, if I have

title: "Post title : Part 1"

the post is not shown by Jekyll.

[nickcharlton]

An instant solution to this is to encode it yourself. A colon is: : as an entity.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10963002/jekyll-new-posts-not-being-generated

[prusswan]

+1

[Vanuan]

The problem is it's hard to find which page contains colon. Jekyll produces exception:

/usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/psych-1.3.4/lib/psych.rb:203:in `parse': (<unknown>): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 4 column 14 (Psych::SyntaxError)
    from /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/psych-1.3.4/lib/psych.rb:203:in `parse_stream'
    from /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/psych-1.3.4/lib/psych.rb:151:in `parse'
    from /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/psych-1.3.4/lib/psych.rb:127:in `load'
    from /usr/share/ruby-rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/jekyll-0.11.2/lib/jekyll/convertible.rb:33:in `read_yaml'

[Vanuan]

When I use quotes around a title, the site is generated correctly.

[srubin]

I had this problem when importing from a tumblr. To fix colons in titles (with python; I'm sure there's some one-liner to do this, but it works):

import re
import glob
colon = re.compile(r"title:(.*:.*)")
for file in glob.glob("_posts/tumblr/*.html"):
    with open(file) as f:
        lines = f.readlines()
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        match = colon.match(line)
        if match:
            lines[i] = "title:" + match.group(1).replace(":", ":") + "\n"
            with open(file, "w") as f:
                print "updating ", file
                for line in lines:
                    f.write(line)

[nottrobin]

Instant help! Yay.

[parkr]

Unfortunately, Jekyll can't do much about this. It's really a YAML problem.

[nottrobin]

Can Jekyll not even do anything useful about the error message? A meaningful error message would be really helpful.

[parkr]

@nottrobin On master, it looks like we give a more helpful error. Did you test on 1.0.0.beta2?

[sotayamashita]

👍

[gideonite]

I'm using jekyll 2.5.3 and I'm still getting an unhelpful error:

Error reading file /home/path/to/01-01-1900-init-my-first-post.md: (<unknown>): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 3 column 12 

line 3 contains the title of the post which has a colon in it.

[parkr]

@gideonite We asked about this here, check it out: dtao/safe_yaml#54

[augustoproiete]

Also using jekyll 2.5.3 and the workaround I prefer, is to use the "non-specifig tag" YAML syntax.

---
title: ! 'Attention: This post title has "colon" & stuff'
date: 2015-05-24 11:12:13
---

This allows me to use colon, double quotes, and pretty much any special char.

[fernandomantoan]

The syntax suggested by @caioproiete works for me.

[akhyarrh]

I use 'Title: subtitle' and "Title: subtitle" everything work fine

[pathawks]

This issue is more than three years old; I would hope everything works fine.

[gurghet]

Quotes worked