Github Flavoured Markdown

[0xdevalias]

It would be great to be able to use GitHub Flavoured Markdown.

Looking at the Pandoc options you can use markdown_github, but trying to use this in my config file gives me an error:

gitit: Unknown page type: markdown_github

Searching the code, it seems this happens in Utils.hs, but I don't know enough (read: any) Haskell to figure out where to go from here, and how to go about adding support.

[meridius]

Not only GitHub MD Pandoc can be configured to use all sorts of MD syntax through extensions as stated here http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown. It would be great if Gitit could be configured to transfer those options to Pandoc.

I'm thinking globally in config file and per page in metadata block.

How about that?

[0xdevalias]

That would be an even better solution :) Avoid all the arbitrary limitations!

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On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:46 PM +1100, "Martin Lukeš" notifications@github.com wrote:

Not only GitHub MD Pandoc can be configured to use all sorts of MD syntax through extensions as stated here http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown. It would be great if Gitit could be configured to transfer those options to Pandoc.

I'm thinking globally in config file and per page in metadata block.

How about that?

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[hying-caritas]

Is it possible to implement this support? I need this too.

[ernstwi]

I don't know enough Haskell to implement a general solution, but I found that changing these lines in ContentTransformer.hs was enough to get gitit to use GFM.

Before change:

readerExtensions = if lhs
                      then Set.insert Ext_literate_haskell
                           $ readerExtensions def
                      else readerExtensions def

After change:

readerExtensions = if lhs
                      then Set.insert Ext_literate_haskell
                           $ githubMarkdownExtensions
                      else githubMarkdownExtensions

You could also pick your own specific extensions from Text.Pandoc.Options. For example to use pandoc markdown with the extenstion hard_line_breaks:

readerExtensions = if lhs
                      then Set.insert Ext_literate_haskell
                           $ Set.insert Ext_hard_line_breaks
                           $ readerExtensions def
                      else Set.insert Ext_hard_line_breaks
                           $ readerExtensions def

[fzumstein]

Any update on this?