render-engine-markdown 2023.12.1

Markdown Parser for Render Engine

Markdown Parser

This is a parser for the Markdown markup language. This is the default parser for render_engine pages.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name.

The underlying parser is python-markdown2.

Parser Options

These are the options that can be pulled from the page:

Option	Description
markdown_extras	A list of extensions to use. See python-markdown2 for a list of extensions.

Content Path Type

Provide a suggestion for the type of content that your parser expects.

<CONTENTPARSER> expects a path|url in the content_path field of the Page object.

class MyPage(Page):
    content_path = "~/.my_page.md"
    # or content_path = "https://example.com/my_page.md"