Why front matter is always in yaml (I have metaDataFormat = "toml")?

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Hi,
I’m starting to play with hugo and I have set metaDataFormat = "toml", but everytime a create a new content I have always yaml front matter.

How is it possible to have it in toml?
I’m using v0.32 and beautifulhugo theme.

Thank you

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You can replace the “—” with “+++” as the front matter delimiter.

I think the reason YAML is most common is

  1. It is what you see in most examples
  2. GitHub parses it into a nice table
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Thank you.

But if I set metaDataFormat = "toml" I should have front matter in toml when I create a new content. Or Am I wrong??

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Yes, that will work with the hugo new some/page.md.

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My problem is that I have alwasy in yaml, and I have set metaDataFormat = "toml"

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@bep thank you again.

I have an empty site. I have anything to convert.

I’m creating my first page and I have front matter in yaml and not in toml. Why?
I have set metaDataFormat = "toml".

My config.toml

baseURL = "http://example.org/"
metaDataFormat = "toml"
languageCode = "en-us"
title = "A test"
theme="beautifulhugo"
publishDir = "public"
config = "config.toml"
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@bep is it normal for an empy site with metaDataFormat = "toml" to have alwasy new content frontmatter in yaml?

What’s the meaning of metaDataFormat option?

Thank you

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Why do you ask me about this?

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Because you were kind and already answered me in this thread, and I’m not able to create new content using by default toml frontmatter.
If I run hugo new page.md in a empty hugo site configured with metaDataFormat = “toml”`, I have always yaml front matter.
It’s seems to me a wrong behavior and I do not understand what I’m wrong.

Thank you

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How have you set the archetype? You will have to set the site source for someone to help you.

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Ok, I understood I must set archetype. Than a stupid question: once I have set metaDataFormat = "toml", what are the consequences for a hugo site?
It’s not to have front matter in toml, because this depend on archetype files (if these are in yaml, you will have front matter in yaml). Am I right?

Thank you

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Honestly, I use neither archetypes, nor that config variable. I simply have front-matter with +++ to have it interpreted as TOML, as simple as that.

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@aborruso
Just for reference: it appears to not be in use anymore (since a while already).
PR to fix this: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs/pull/554