Re: [Yaml-core] Don't understand folded text entries.

[Sam V. <sa...@vi...>]

Kenneth Downs wrote:
> Hi folks, I'm using YAML to do database specifications, so they look 
> something like this:
>
> column price:
>    type_id: numb
>    colprec: 5
> ....and so forth
>
> pretty simple stuff.  What I don't understand from the docs is how to 
> put in free-form notes that may include wiki formatting and other 
> stuff.  I think in YAML-speak I want a "folding" block.  Would this work:
>
> column price:
>   type_id: numb
>   notes: "The price column
> is required so we know how much something costs.
>
> I can skip a line in here and i'm ok.  In fact I can use
> a [[wikilink]] if I want to."
>
> Is that the basic idea?  Just use quotes and I'm good?

I normally use the "|" form;

  column price:
    type_id: numb
    notes: |
      The price column is required so we know how much something costs.

      I can skip a line in here and i'm ok.  In fact I can use
      a [[wikilink]] if I want to.


You'll still end up with linefeeds in the output, but all the whitespace
to the left of the block has been stripped. I think there are other
useful ways of starting it than "|" that work differently, too.

Sam.