intrigeri: > [email protected] wrote (02 Mar 2014 18:20:49 GMT) : >> In the process of polishing the MAC address spoofing documentation, I >> felt like adding a footnote. This is only possible if we enable >> multimarkdown in ikiwiki, which is not the case so far. > >> I think that might be useful in the future, you can add footnote, layout >> fancy tables, etc. > >> Shall I do that, or do you have any counter indication? > > IIRC there was a blocker last time I thought of this years ago, > but I cannot remember what it is :( > > Assuming our current website source builds fine with MultiMarkdown, > then the only problem I can see with it is that it isolates us with > some specialized Markdown syntax, and e.g. we won't be able to use > Pandoc or other tools that support regular Markdown. Not that I can > find of plausible short-term use cases for that, though. > > But there's a more serious issue: ikiwiki seems to be using the oldish > Perl implementation of MultiMarkdown, which upstream has moved away > from a while ago: no release nor upload to Debian since 2011. > > No idea how fast and robust that implementation of MultiMarkdown is, > compared e.g. to the super-fast "Discount" implementation of Markdown > we're currently using IIRC. > > I'm not convinced, but I'll let you weight the pros and cons.
If we're not sure about the drawbacks, then let's forget about that. I made a DIY equivalent for this time and linked to your email in the commit message. See 8d3a1b1. -- sajolida
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