anstosa
commented
6 years ago Ah, yeah the verbose macro syntax works (<$macrocall $name=now>):
The plugin uses MarkdownIt to parse from Markdown to HTML and then uses a custom function to parse from HTML to a TW Widget tree. Because the <<>> shorthand is not valid xml, it doesn't survive the initial Markdown rendering to get to the stage where the TW fallback logic lives.
I should be able to add a custom MarkdownIt plugin in order to make the macro shorthand work. I will re-purpose this ticket for that
I am trying to combine tw5 syntax and markdown syntax in a single tiddler. According to documentation all non markdown syntax elements fallback to tw5 parser. Most likely I am doing something stupid and the syntax I try to use is colliding with markdown. I have a tiddler with the following content:
It renders as
<.