A CommonMark-compliant parser for Julia.
using CommonMarkCreate a markdown parser with the default CommonMark settings and then add footnote syntax to our parser.
parser = Parser()
enable!(parser, FootnoteRule())Parse some text to an abstract syntax tree from a String:
ast = parser("Hello *world*")Parse the contents of a source file:
ast = open(parser, "document.md")Write ast to a string.
body = html(ast)
content = "<head></head><body>$body</body>"Write to a file.
open("file.tex", "w") do file
latex(file, ast)
println(file, "rest of document...")
endOr write to a buffer, such as stdout.
term(stdout, ast)Supported output formats are currently:
htmllatexterm: colourised and Unicode-formatted for display in a terminal.markdownnotebook: Jupyter notebooks.
Extensions can be enabled using the enable! function and disabled using disable!.
Convert ASCII dashes, ellipses, and quotes to their Unicode equivalents.
enable!(parser, TypographyRule())Keyword arguments available for TypographyRule are
double_quotessingle_quotesellipsesdashes
which all default to true.
enable!(parser, AdmonitionRule())Fenced blocks at the start of a file containing structured data.
+++
[heading]
content = "..."
+++
The rest of the file...
The block must start on the first line of the file. Supported blocks are:
;;;for JSON+++for TOML---for YAML
To enable provide the FrontMatterRule with your choice of parsers for the formats:
using JSON
enable!(parser, FrontMatterRule(json=JSON.Parser.parse))You can access front matter from a parsed file using frontmatter. As follows.
ast = open(parser, "document.md")
meta = frontmatter(ast)enable!(parser, FootnoteRule())Julia-style inline and display maths:
Some ``\LaTeX`` math:
```math
f(a) = \frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2\pi} (\alpha+R\cos(\theta))d\theta
```Enabled with:
enable!(parser, MathRule())Dollar-style inline and display math is also available using
enable!(parser, DollarMathRule())Supported syntax:
- single dollar signs surrounding inline math,
- double dollars surrounding a single line paragraph for display math.
For more complex math, such as multiline display math, use the literal block
syntax available with MathRule().
Pipe-style tables, similar to GitHub's tables. Literal | characters that are
not wrapped in other syntax such as * must be escaped with a backslash. The
number of columns in the table is specified by the second line.
| Column One | Column Two | Column Three |
|:---------- | ---------- |:------------:|
| Row `1` | Column `2` | |
| *Row* 2 | **Row** 2 | Column ``|`` |Rows with more cells than specified have the trailing cells discarded, and rows with less cells are topped up with empty cells.
Enabled with:
enable!(parser, TableRule())Overload literal syntax to support passing through any type of raw content.
enable!(parser, RawContentRule())By default RawContentRule will handle inline and block content in HTML and
LaTeX formats.
This is raw HTML: `<img src="myimage.jpg">`{=html}.
And here's an HTML block:
```{=html}
<div id="main">
<div class="article">
``````{=latex}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[gray, thick] (-1,2) -- (2,-4);
\draw[gray, thick] (-1,-1) -- (2,2);
\filldraw[black] (0,0) circle (2pt) node[anchor=west] {Intersection point};
\end{tikzpicture}
```This can be used to pass through different complex content that can't be easily handled by CommonMark natively without any loss of expressiveness.
Custom raw content handlers can also be passed through when enabling the rule.
The naming scheme is <format>_inline or <format>_block.
enable!(p, RawContentRule(rst_inline=RstInline))The last example would require the definition of a custom RstInline struct
and associated display methods for all supported output types, namely: html,
latex, and term. When passing your own keywords to RawContentRule the
defaults are not included and must be enabled individually.
Block and inline nodes can be tagged with arbitrary metadata in the form of
key/value pairs using the AttributeRule extension.
enable!(p, AttributeRule())Block attributes appear directly above the node that they target:
{#my_id color="red"}
# HeadingThis will attach the metadata id="my_id" and color="red" to # Heading.
Inline attributes appear directly after the node that they target:
*Some styled text*{background="green"}.Which will attach metadata background="green" to the emphasised text
Some styled text.
CSS-style shorthand syntax #<name> and .<name> are available to use in
place of id="<name>" and class="name". Multiple classes may be specified
sequentially.
AttributeRule does not handle writing metadata to particular formats such as
HTML or LaTeX. It is up to the implementation of a particular writer format to
make use of available metadata itself. The built-in html and latex outputs
make use of included attributes. html will include all provided attributes
in the output, while latex makes use of only the #<id> attribute.
Use the following to enable in-text citations and reference list generation:
enable!(p, CitationRule())Syntax for citations is similar to what is offered by
Pandoc. Citations start with @.
Citations can either appear in square brackets [@id], or they can be written as
part of the text like @id. Bracketed citations can contain more than one
citation; separated by semi-colons [@one; @two; and @three].
{#refs}
# ReferencesA reference section that will be populated with a list of all references can be
marked using a {#refs} attribute from AttributeRule at the toplevel of
the document. The list will be inserted after the node, in this case # References.
Citations and reference lists are formatted following the Chicago Manual of Style. Styling will, in future versions, be customisable using Citation Style Language styles.
The reference data used for citations must be provided in a format matching
CSL JSON.
Pass this data to CommonMark.jl when writing an AST to a output format.
html(ast, Dict{String,Any}("references" => JSON.parsefile("references.json")))CSL JSON can be exported easily from reference management software such as
Zotero or generated via pandoc-citeproc --bib2json
or similar. The references data can be provided by the front matter section
of a document so long as the FrontMatterRule has been enabled, though this does
require writing your CSL data manually.
Note that the text format of the reference list is not important, and does not
have to be JSON data. So long as the shape of the data matches CSL JSON it
is valid. Below we use YAML references embedded in the document's front
matter:
---
references:
- id: abelson1996
author:
- family: Abelson
given: Harold
- family: Sussman
given: Gerald Jay
edition: 2nd Editon
event-place: Cambridge
ISBN: 0-262-01153-0
issued:
date-parts:
- - 1996
publisher: MIT Press/McGraw-Hill
publisher-place: Cambridge
title: Structure and interpretation of computer programs
type: book
---
Here's a citation [@abelson1996].
{#refs}
# ReferencesHeadings within a document can be assigned ids automatically using
enable!(p, AutoIdentifierRule())Identifiers are determined with CommonMark.slugify, which is based on the
algorithm used by Pandoc. Non-unique identifiers are suffixed with a numeric
counter and so cannot be considered stable. If you need stable identifiers then
you should use AttributeRule to assign stable ids manually.
Block rules enabled by default in Parser objects:
AtxHeadingRule()BlockQuoteRule()FencedCodeBlockRule()HtmlBlockRule()IndentedCodeBlockRule()ListItemRule()SetextHeadingRule()ThematicBreakRule()
Inline rules enabled by default in Parser objects:
AsteriskEmphasisRule()AutolinkRule()HtmlEntityRule()HtmlInlineRule()ImageRule()InlineCodeRule()LinkRule()UnderscoreEmphasisRule()
These can all be disabled using disable!. Note that disabling some parser
rules may result in unexpected results. It is recommended to be conservative in
what is disabled.
Note
Until version 1.0.0 the rules listed above are subject to change and should
be considered unstable regardless of whether they are exported or not.
When writing to an output format configuration data can be provided by:
- passing a
Dict{String,Any}to the writer method, - front matter in the source document using the
FrontMatterRuleextension.
Front matter takes precedence over the passed Dict.
Values used to determine template behaviour:
-
template-engine::FunctionUsed to render standalone document templates.No default is provided by this package. The
template-enginefunction should follow the interface provided byMustache.render. It is recommended to use Mustache.jl to provide this functionalilty.Syntax for opening and closing tags used by
CommonMark.jlis${...}. See the templates insrc/writers/templatesfor usage examples. -
<format>.template.file::StringCustom template file to use for standalone<format>. -
<format>.template.string::StringCustom template string to use for standalone<format>.
Generic variables that can be included in templates to customise documents:
-
abstract::StringSummary of the document. -
authors::Vector{String}Vector of author names. -
date::StringDate of file generation. -
keywords::Vector{String}Vector of keywords to be included in the document metadata. -
lang::StringLanguage of the document. -
title::StringTitle of the document. -
subtitle::StringSubtitle of the document.
Format-specific variables that should be used only in a particular format's template. They are namespaced to avoid collision with other variables.
-
html-
html.css::Vector{String}Vector of CSS files to include in document. -
html.js::Vector{String}Vector of JavaScript files to include in document. -
html.header::StringString content to add at end of<head>. -
html.footer::StringString content to add at end of<body>.
-
-
latex-
latex.documentclass::StringClass file to use for document. Default isarticle. -
latex.preamble::StringString content to add directly before\begin{document}.
-
The following are automatically available in document templates.
-
body::StringMain content of the page. -
curdir::StringCurrent directory. -
outputfile::StringName of file that is being written to. When writing to an in-memory buffer this variable is not defined.