YAML front matter

[minimaxir]

YAML front matter is a common feature for static site/blog generators and Python documentation tools, but frogmouth handles it weirdly. Unclear if it's within scope.

The front matter for one of my blog posts in VS Code:

The front matter in frogmouth:

[davep]

At this stage we're aiming to handle documents that conform to CommonMark, or thereabouts. But I can see that it would be handy to see about handling this too; I'll keep this in mind.

[willmcgugan]

This should probably be something supported by the Textual Markdown widget.

[davep]

@willmcgugan Yup, experimented with it briefly this morning and have it working; albeit by "ignoring" the front-matter for now; hence Textualize/textual#2440.

[davep]

See also #20 for a more general take on this (eg: footnotes could be handy, etc).

[davep]

Now that Textualize/textual#2803 is part of Textual it should be easy enough to pull in the relevant plugin and make use of it.

[davep]

As of #96 frontmatter won't be displayed within the document view.