Custom Markdown Parsing Question

Plug Development
1

I’ve been trying to figure out how to piggy back off of the code markdown plug & extend/replace some of the rendering features (I want to justify tables using the standard :-:, :- syntax).

I’ve followed that the general steps are:

  1. the syscall markdown.markdownToHtml gets made
  2. the core markdown plug listens to that with the plug yaml:
  markdownToHtml:
    path: api.ts:markdownToHtml
    syscall: markdown.markdownToHtml
  1. markdownToHtml calls parseMarkdown and renderMarkdownToHtml

But I just can’t seem to get even a simple console logging function to work

// tables.ts
export function testing(
	markdown_string: string,
	options: any
) {
	console.log(markdown_string);
	console.log(options);
}

  testing:
    path: tables.ts:testing
    syscall: markdown.markdownToHtml

There’s something obvious I’m missing here, but I have no clue what it is

2

You cannot extend the markdown parser through plugs, what you’re doing here is overriding the markdown.markdownToHtml syscall with your own implementation which likely won’t do anything than break things :wink:

If you want to extend the parser there’s no other way than to make changes in the SB core: silverbullet/common/markdown_parser at main · silverbulletmd/silverbullet · GitHub

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