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Author: golinux
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] My first commit
On 2021-08-18 18:00, Xenguy.fl9z@??? wrote:
> From: "ralph ronnquist" ; Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 1:17:02 AM:
>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 21:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Xenguy.fl9z@??? wrote:
>> > From: "Hendrik Boom" ; Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 2:32:22 PM:
> [...]
>> > > I've noticed that the markdown processor I use doesn't seem to be
>> > > the same as the one gitea uses.
>> > >
>> > > In particular, it doesn't seem to know what to do with ~~~ at the
>> > > start of a line.
>> > >
>> > > -- hendrik
>> >
>> > I just tried 2 different markdown2html conversion utilities:
>> > markdown and pandoc. pandoc wins (markdown misses a number of
>> > things). I'll see if I can figure out how to get pandoc to use,
>> > e.g. <br> instead of <br />
>>
>> There is little to no documentation about the markdown used by the
>> gitea version Devuan has installed. It doesn't seem possible to
>> configure this gitea to use a markdown renderer by choice, and there
>> also doesn't seem to be a compatible stand-alone rendering utility for
>> authoring use in your own workspace.
>>
>> Another issue will always be that the HTML presentation on a browser
>> typically involves multiple files, which on the git repository side is
>> a severe complication. The repository does not keep the project files
>> "unpacked" as a directory tree, but only as git's binary objects. It
>> therefore is rather cumbersome for the web service to offer the
>> collective of files that the browser wants for its HTML+CSS+js
>> rendering.
>>
>> In short I guess one should not think of the gitea repository browsing
>> support (aka gitea) to be a publishing area, but there should rather
>> be a publishing step that maps the content into HTML at a publishing
>> site.
>>
>> Ralph.
>
> Yeah, I personally have no need to render the Markdown (MD) while
> working with the 'documentation' repo. My only concern is with
> converting MD to HTML for final file versions that are being mounted on
> the web site. This post-processing still needs to be worked out, but I
> imagine that it should be easy enough to do when that time comes. I
> have not yet seen any indication of what method Chillfan was using for
> this. If anyone happens to know, I'm all ears...
>
> TTYL,
> X.
>


I don't know what method he was using but the html that he provided
needed to be adjusted to match that of www. Hopefully you can come up
with a conversion routine that is compatible.

golinux