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Markdown extension to easily define custom blocks
https://github.com/vokimon/markdown-customblocks

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Markdown extension to easily define custom blocks

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# Customblocks for Markdown



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Customblocks is an extension for [Python-Markdown]

that settles a **common markup** for **parametrizable and nestable components**

whose output can be **redefined** by means of a simple Python function.



Many off-the-shelf components are provided such as

div-containers, admonitions, figures, link cards, maps...

and some embeded widgets from common sites (wikipedia, youtube, vimeo, peertube, mastodon, twitter, facebook, instagram, goteo, verkami...)



It also includes convenience tools to ease component definition:

hyperscript html generation, cached page fetching and metadata page extraction.



[Python-Markdown]: https://python-markdown.github.io/



## Installation and setup



To install:



```bash

$ pip install markdown-customblocks

```



And then activate it as any other Markdown extension.



From command line:



```bash

$ markdown -x customblocks ...

```



In Python code:



```python

import markdown

md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=["customblocks"])

md.convert(markdowncontent)

```



In [Pelican](https://blog.getpelican.com/) config:



```python

MARKDOWN = {

    'extensions': [

        'customblocks',

    ],

}

```



For [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org), add this to `mkdocs.yml`:



```yaml

markdown_extensions:

  - customblocks

```



If you need to specify additional parameters for the extension,

refer to the documentation of your generator.



## Basic usage



Customblocks extension parses markup structures like this one:



```markdown

::: mytype "value 1" param2=value2

    Indented **content**

```



And, by default, generates HTML like this:



```html



   
Indented content




```



This is the output of the default generator: `container`.

But we could bound `mytype` to a custom Python function like the following one:



```python

def mygenerator(ctx, param1, param2):

    return f"""
{ctx.content}
"""

```



And then, previous Markdown would generate this other HTML:



```html

Indented **content**


```



Notice that this function is not escaping any received value

and is not converting anything in the content to Markdown.

Luckily, `customblocks` provides some useful tools for that:

the hyperscript generator and the Markdown subparser:



```python

from customblocks.utils import E, Markdown



def mygenerator(ctx, param1, param2):

    return E('', attrib1=param1, attrib2=param2,

        Markdown(ctx.content, ctx.parser)

    )

```



You can read more about them at the [related documentation](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/defining-generators/#hyperscript).



## Built-in generators



For convenience, `customblocks` also provides the following predefined generators:



- [`container`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-container/):

    A div element with arbitrary classes, attributes and content. This is the default when no type matches.

- [`admonition`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-admonition/):

    Admonitions, boxes for notes, warnings... (quite similar to the [standard extra extension][ExtraAdmonitions]).

    It is bound to types `note`,  `info`, `error`, `warning`....

- [`figure`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-figure/):

    Full featured figures with captions, lightbox...

- [`map`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-map/):

    Maps from [OpenStreetMaps.org](https://openstreetmap.org)

- [`linkcard`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-linkcard/):

    External link cards (like Facebook and Twitter do, when you post a link)

- [`wikipedia`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-wikipedia/):

    Wikipedia article card by lemma (and language)

- [`youtube`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-youtube/):

    Embeded videos from youtube.

- [`vimeo`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-vimeo/):

    Embeded videos from vimeo.

- [`peertube`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-peertube/):

    Embeded videos from [peertube](https://joinpeertube.org)

- [`mastodon`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-mastodon/):

    Embeded [mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) posts

- [`twitter`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-twitter/):

    Embeded tweets

- [`facebook`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-facebook/):

    Embeded post from facebook

- [`instagram`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-instagram/):

    Embeded post from instagram

- [`verkami`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-verkami/):

    Fund raising project widget in [Verkami]

- [`goteo`](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/generators-goteo/):

    Fund raising project widget in [Goteo]



[ExtraAdmonitions]: https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/admonition/



## General markup syntax



This is a more complete example of markup:



```markdown

::: mytype param1 key1=value1 "other param" key2='value2 with words' flag1 noflag2

    Indented **content**



    The block ends whenever the indentation stops

This unindented line is not considered part of the block

```



**The headline:**

The line starting with `:::` is the _headline_.

It specifies, first, the block type (`mytype`) followed by a set of _values_

that will be passed to the generator as parameters.



**Block type:**

The type is used to select the generator function.

If there is no generator bound to the type, the div-container generator, will be used by default.



**Quotes:**

Muti-word values can be passed by using either single or double quotes.

You can skip quotes if your value is single worded.



**Explicit keywords:**

Also some values may target an explicit parameter with a _key_.

This works as follows:

from the available block parameters, values with a key are set first,

then the remaining unset parameters are filled by position.



**Flags (bools):**

Boolean parameters (flags) can be set by just adding a value with the name of the flag, like `flag1` in the example.

And they can be unset by adding the name with a `no` prefix, like `noflag2` in the example.



**Content:**

After the _headline_, several lines of indented _content_ may follow.

The content ends with the very first non-emtpy line back on the previous indentation.



Indentation is removed from the content for the generator to process it.

A block type may choose to interpret this content as markdown as well.

So you can have nested blocks by adding extra indentation.

For example:



```markdown

::: recipe

    # Sweet water

    ::: ingredients "4 persons"

        - two spons of suggar

        - a glass of tap water

    ::: mealphoto sweetwater.jpg

        Looks gorgeus!

    Drop the suggar into the glass. Stir.

```



::: note

    A closing `:::` tag is optional.

    For most cases, indentation should be enough, visually, and functionally.

    But, seldomly, it is necessary.

    Like in the example below, where

    the mealphoto content would be mixed with 

    the later code block



        ::: mealphoto sweetwater.jpg

                Looks gorgeus!

        :::

                This is a code block by indentation



## Further reading



- [Full documentation](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks)

- [Code](https://github.com/vokimon/markdown-customblocks)

- [Release History](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/CHANGES)

- [Road map](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/TODO)

- [Motivation and design choices](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/motivation)

- [Inspiration and kudos](https://vokimon.github.io/markdown-customblocks/inspiration)