[Libre-soc-dev] Markdown on ikiwiki

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 5:55 PM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Assuming your using a recent enough version of ikiwiki, you should be
> able to enable GitHub-style code blocks like this:
> ```my-programming-language
> blah blah blah
> ```
>
> To do that, you install libmarkdown >= 2.2.0

(and the associated perl module)

> and make sure ikiwiki is using discount markdown.

i think what it is, is: i'd enabled multimarkdown for some arbitrary reason

> http://source.ikiwiki.branchable.com/?p=source.git;a=blob;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/mdwn.pm;h=9158a477beb5bdbd98855253a57dafa21ca53fb3;hb=HEAD#l111

that's there.

aaand we're good.  multimarkdown disabled, that then uses discount
markdown which yeah hurrah, works.

thanks for the kick, there, jacob.

l.