https://sandfox.me/tags/commonmarker.xml 2026-09-02T00:44:42Z Anton Smirnov Nikola https://sandfox.me/ruby/embracing-commonmark.html 2016-04-06T02:46:00+03:00 2016-04-06T02:46:00+03:00 Anton Smirnov

<div><p>As you may know, <a class="reference external" href="https://commonmark.org/">CommonMark</a> is a project aiming to create unified and unambiguous Markdown syntax specification. So, I'm in. I want to spread the word and even use it in my own blog.</p> <p>The trouble number one is that Jekyll uses <a class="reference external" href="https://rubygems.org/gems/kramdown">kramdown</a> by default. So we find a gem and the gem is <a class="reference external" href="https://rubygems.org/gems/jekyll-commonmark">jekyll-commonmark</a>. Oh hell, we lost syntax highlighting :(</p> <p>The trouble number two is that CommonMark standard lacks support for server side syntax highlighting. That's bad, I don't want any JavaScript on my static pages. Let's try to wrap it somehow and enable syntax highligting.</p> <p>The strong side of Ruby CommonMark implementation, <a class="reference external" href="https://rubygems.org/gems/commonmarker">CommonMarker</a> is its ability to parse a document to the abstract syntax tree, so let's use it to extract our blocks and highlight them with <a class="reference external" href="https://rubygems.org/gems/rouge">Rouge</a> for example.</p> <p><a href="https://sandfox.me/ruby/embracing-commonmark.html">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>