Would it work to do this? This uses ----- rules that you would see, when writing slides for slideshows
---
class: slideTitle
# Presentation Title
---
class: slideInspirationalQuote
> Lorem Ipsum - The Quote
---
class: slideList
# List
1. thing1
2. thing2
---
This ties into my proposal for metadata attributes
The metadata is placed in attribute of the div tag for that section. As seen in the example Metadata in documents .