Continuing the discussion from Markdown-it is very powerful with its pulgin, how to achieve these on discourse : I see per that older topic that markdown-it features outside of commonmark “will not be included”, but there’s no way to add them via the separate markdown-it plugins? They really would …

I’m not following you. A Discourse plugin that incorporates markdown-it does not exist, of course you can not install plugins written for other platforms. If you really need the markdown-it extra-features (which as Jeff said is not the standard markdown we use on Discourse) you should write a plug…

I’m trying to understand. There are plugins for markdown-it that expand its features. If Discourse used Markdown-it as a full dependency, it would be reasonable to wonder whether adding features to that dependency would bring them to Discourse. But it seems that however Discourse uses markdown-it, …

Your assessment here is very off Markdown it extensions can be repackaged as discourse plugins just fine, I plan to do footnotes next week and write a howto

Oh okay, great! I assumed that sort of thing was easy enough, but I didn’t know if it would take some repackaging work or just some install instructions. FWIW, the ones I’m most interested in are Footnotes and Anchors . Secondarily, task-lists and container seem quite useful (just stated as votes to…

[image] wolftune: Secondarily, task-lists For that one, you’ll want this plugin instead: [image] Discourse Checklist Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Checklist allows checkboxes to be added to posts with simple Markdown open_book Install Guide…

No way to install markdown-it plugins?

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sam (Sam Saffron) April 5, 2018, 2:08am 7

This is now documented at: Repackaging a markdown-it extension as a Discourse plugin

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No way to install markdown-it plugins?

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