&gt; Well (and this is only an opinion) having to separate each field makes it harder to edit manually, and a new file extension will be a hassle for non-technical users who want to use their favorite editor.<p>A non technical user would use the admin interface.<p>Obviously a custom file extension is not particularly nice but there is really not that much one can do around that.  Renaming the file to `.md` will not magically make things better because the contents are just wrong and the Markdown format just does not do what Lektor needs.