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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 24, 2016 at 12:04 AM
Hello, this my first post. I’m currently working on another Information Organizer Software so this will not be the last posting, be prepared.
I’m curious if there is some markdown for data fields. I remember AskSam used “Field[” with a closing bracket either on the same line (single line field) or on a next line.
Using markdown it would seem natural to change this to “Field:[ ]” and [[[Field:
``` syntax) for multiline fields.
Is there any free form database already which is using fields and markdown?
Posted by Prion
Feb 24, 2016 at 06:47 AM
There are a number of free-form databases that use some form of fields or key:value pairs.
Org mode is using the property drawer for it with a plain text markup, see here http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-syntax.html
Tinderbox is using XML for this purpose
Quiver uses JSON
They are not terribly hard to parse but are not plain text so may not be what you are looking for.
On which platform is your program going to run?
Prion
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 24, 2016 at 03:21 PM
>Org mode is using the property drawer for it with a plain text markup,
>see here http://orgmode.org/manual/Property-syntax.html
Oh yes, i forgot the answer is always 42 or Emacs.
>They are not terribly hard to parse but are not plain text so may not be
>what you are looking for.
It wasn’t a parsing question. I just thought i’m not the first one with this idea.
Being an AskSam user since version 1.03
>On which platform is your program going to run?
Frontend: MacOSX, Windows.
Backend: MacOSX, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 24, 2016 at 03:25 PM
>Oh yes, i forgot the answer is always 42 or Emacs.
Lother, you made my day :-)
Posted by Jan S.
Feb 24, 2016 at 04:38 PM
couldn’t you use yaml headers in the .md files? or what exactly do you mean by a data field?