showdown

Turns out showdown requires strict tabling, seen in https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/issues/666 so it is slightly gfm incompatible

I had an idea a while ago. Instead of dealing with two sets of files, why not make a file that was Markdown and HTML at the same time? I found this utility, which unfortunately seems to have been abandoned: https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown All you need to do is add a few lines to the top of your Markdown file. Here's an example: https://trivialcode.com/mdhtml_demo/demo.mdhtml Take a look at the source of the .mdhtml file and you'll see what I mean. If you're taking notes in Markdown this might make things a bit easier to keep organized. No need to update anything if you're exporting to HTML. Thoughts? Is this a good idea? A bad one? I also wondered if generating Markdown via a web server and then converting it on the fly like this would be an interesting exercise. Seems like it'd be simpler than generating HTML. I use Vim, so I've p

This comes on top of Marked[1], so it is a dependency. Use with care. From my experience any of the trio, Marked[1], Showdown[2] and Markdown-it[3], can be configured to just do it themselves. As a side note, I built a markdown editor once that works client side and resides inside "real static" html. Demo for the interested: http://public.docs.xstatic.site.s3-website-us-west-1.amazona... [1] https://github.com/markedjs/marked [2] https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown [3] https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it

for Perl, there are three project in the paper, gitolite, showdown, rails-dev-box gitolite is a perl project. showdown? https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown it has some perl code in it, but it is a js project. rails-dev-box? rail dev, do you agree with that? So I will not read the paper.