From 553b5b1df802acbe2d62c130952bcb4f330a357c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Parsons <Jeff@pcjs.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 13:19:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Test removal of Front Matter from Markdown files

---
 docs/about/README.md           |  6 ++++++
 modules/markout/lib/markout.js | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/about/README.md b/docs/about/README.md
index c2d7ba4a7..3829ce295 100644
--- a/docs/about/README.md
+++ b/docs/about/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: About JavaScript Machines
+permalink: /docs/about/
+---
+
 About JavaScript Machines
 ---
 
diff --git a/modules/markout/lib/markout.js b/modules/markout/lib/markout.js
index c85daab65..bb3adb3b5 100644
--- a/modules/markout/lib/markout.js
+++ b/modules/markout/lib/markout.js
@@ -341,11 +341,18 @@ MarkOut.prototype.convertMD = function(sIndent)
      *
      *      $sMD = preg_replace("%<!--.*?-->%s", "", $sMD);
      *
-     * NOTE: I found the following trick online: use "[\s\S]" to match any character, to work around JavaScript's
-     * lack of support for the "s" (aka "dotall" or "multiline") option that changes "." to match newlines.
+     * NOTE: I found the following trick online: use "[\s\S]" to match any character and work around
+     * the lack of JavaScript support for the "s" (aka "dotall" or "multiline") option that enables
+     * "." to match newlines.
      */
     sMD = sMD.replace(/<!--[\s\S]*?-->/g, "");
 
+    /*
+     * If the Markdown begins with a triple-dash, we assume there's a "Front Matter" header at the
+     * top of the file that we don't want to output, either.
+     */
+    sMD = sMD.replace(/^---[\s\S]*?---[ \t]*\n*/, "");
+
     /*
      * Convert all lone series of three or more hyphens/underscores/asterisks into horizontal rules.
      */