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The Tale of Markdownify

Simon Hanukaev on August 21, 2018

While I was playing around with Hugo and Jekyll, I found out that their markdownify filter is somewhat confusing. To describe the problem, first I...
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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Hmm interesting! I've run into similar issues dealing with Markdown parsing where there's an additional <p> tag, and while it doesn't throw a wrench that destroys the system, it is a bit unexpected. Good to know it happens with other Markdown parsing.

Also, TIL you can use variables with Jekyll and Hugo.

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Paul Melero • Edited

Interesting. They do not specify a way of doing this in the Github spec neither, AFAIK. github.github.com/gfm