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some notes on ikiwiki vs. Markdown

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Simon McVittie 2014-12-09 23:39:35 +00:00
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> >
> > ... maybe a bug in Discount... --[[anarcat]]
> > > Discount versions older than 2.1.6 do not support the \`\`\` fences.
> > > ikiwiki.info (hosted by branchable.com) presumably runs on Debian
> > > stable, which only has 2.1.3. I am not involved in running Branchable,
> > > but it seems reasonable to assume that it will be upgraded to 2.1.7
> > > as part of upgrading to Debian 8 when that is released. --[[smcv]]
> > I strongly support this feature as well! --[[integrii]]
> > > ikiwiki has no support for specific Markdown features: all it does
> > > is to recognise a Markdown file and give it to a Markdown
> > > implementation such as [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]].
> > > If you would like ikiwiki to support a different subset of Markdown,
> > > please either recommend a better Markdown implementation, or
> > > report bugs / feature requests to the maintainer of Discount.
> > >
> > > In this case it appears there is no code change required in
> > > ikiwiki (and for that matter, nothing to do in Discount either
> > > because the feature request has already been implemented),
> > > so I'm [[closing this todo item|done]]. --[[smcv]]

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@ -5,3 +5,13 @@ Just a quick note that some people are making noise about Markdown standardisati
* <http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer>
It might be worth following...
> ikiwiki does not implement Markdown: we use a third-party library for that
> (there are several options, but the recommended one is currently
> [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]]). We support whatever dialect
> of Markdown is implemented by the chosen Markdown implementation.
>
> As a result, nothing is likely to change in ikiwiki's interpretation of
> Markdown unless someone either changes the behaviour of Discount,
> or recommends a different (and hopefully better) third-party library.
> --[[smcv]]