minchin.md-it.superscript 1.0.1

This is a plugin for the Python implementation of Markdown-IT (a CommonMark parser) that provides superscript (<sup>) via carets (^).

Markup is based on the Pandoc superscript extension.

Place superscripted text within caret ^ characters. You must escape any spaces in the superscripted text. Note that you cannot use newline or tab characters, and that nested markup is not supported.

Example usage:

>>> from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
>>> from minchin.md_it.superscript import superscript_plugin
>>> md = MarkdownIt().use(superscript_plugin)
>>> md.render("1^st^")
'<p>1<sup>st</sup></p>\\n'
>>> md.render("this^text\\\\ has\\\\ spaces^")
'<p>this<sup>text has spaces</sup></p>\\n'

Tests can be run using pytest.

For whatever reason, subscript was added to the “official” mdit-py-plugins collection, but superscript has been langishing as an open pull reqest for the past six months. This is meant as an interim measure so I can make use of the plugin locally, until such time as the upstream pull request lands. Maybe you’ll find it helpful too!