dash space link (- <https://somelink.com> crashes

[twmoore3rd]

Markdown consisting of a dash, a space, and a link

• https://google.com

crashes the preview.

However (space deleted between dash and less then

-https://google.com

and

• https://google.com -https://google.com

does not crash though the latter puts both links on the same preview line.

[ondratu]

Hi, cold you tell me more information about your formiko version and libraries ?

last git version with these versions works fine.

m2r                 0.2.1
docutils             0.16
Pygments            2.7.1

[twmoore3rd]

On Linux Mint, I used Synaptic Package Manager to install m2r which in turn installed docutils and Pygments as all three packages showed as not being in the (Python?) environment.

After installation of m2r and the other two packages, the preview test case worked.

Suggestions:

• While Formiko does not crash to the command line if m2r (and docutils and Pygments) is not installed (have to love good exception handling), the ungraceful preview almost crash may suggest that m2r (and docutils and Pygments) should be a requirement and merely a recommended.
• Upon installation, is it possible for Formiko to warn which required and recommended libraries are not present?

Am closing this issue as once the recommended libraries are installed, preview appears to work.

Thank you for your work on this project.

[ondratu]

Thanks,

• Pygments are only for code syntax highlighting in exported document, so it has't effect to this issue.
• When you don't have m2r installed, this option (Markdown to ResturcturedText option is disabled), and document is parsed as RsT, which is not perfect, and I try to solve this situation.
• Docutils is main require library, without it, Formiko must not start, but you have right, that it can show some better error message.

I'm thinking about requirements, and i will do some cleanup in them, and if some of then does not exist, formiko will tell it in some right way (dialog, message, notification, I'm not sure now).