We’ve been pretty happy with WMD. There are a few niggling bugs in it, however. Nothing major, but I would love if John Fraser (the author) made the code open source so we can fix some of them. He’s promised to do so but other real life projects are getting in the way. I do … Read more
Recent versions of rmarkdown and pandoc In more recent versions of rmarkdown, the settings of margins can be done in the YAML header via the top-level element geometry. What you specify in the geometry tag will be piped into the LaTeX template that ships with Pandoc via the following LaTeX snippet $if(geometry)$ \usepackage[$for(geometry)$$geometry$$sep$,$endfor$]{geometry} $endif$ For … Read more
In standard Markdown, place an anchor <a name=”abcd”></a> where you want to link to and refer to it on the same page by [link text](#abcd). (This uses name= and not id=, for reasons explained in this answer.) Remote references can use [link text](http://…#abcd) of course. This works like a dream, provided you have control over … Read more
It seems you are looking for a one-liner. How about putting this in your .Rprofile? ksource <- function(x, …) { library(knitr) source(purl(x, output = tempfile()), …) } However, I do not understand why you want to source() the code in the Rmd file itself. I mean knit() will run all the code in this document, … Read more
The only markdown implementation I know of, that uses an actual parser, is Jon MacFarleane’s peg-markdown. Its parser is based on a Parsing Expression Grammar parser generator called peg. EDIT: Mauricio Fernandez recently released his Simple Markup Markdown parser, which he wrote as part of his OcsiBlog Weblog Engine. Because the parser is written in … Read more
But github show nothing for the math symbols! please help me, thanks! GitHub markdown parsing is performed by the SunDown (ex libUpSkirt) library. The motto of the library is “Standards compliant, fast, secure markdown processing library in C”. The important word being “secure” there, considering your question :). Indeed, allowing javascript to be executed would … Read more
It is clear your text contains a linebreak other than LF. In .NET regex, a dot matches any char but LF (a newline char, \n). See Multiline Mode MSDN regex reference By default, $ matches only the end of the input string. If you specify the RegexOptions.Multiline option, it matches either the newline character (\n) … Read more
native markdown doesn’t support text alignment without html + css.
TL;DR Markdown doesn’t support color but you can inline HTML inside Markdown, e.g.: <span style=”color:blue”>some *blue* text</span>. Longer answer As the original/official syntax rules state (emphasis added): Markdown’s syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a format for writing for the web. Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close … Read more
Update 30th, January 2013, 16 months later: GitHub Blog Post Relative links in markup files: Starting today, GitHub supports relative links in markup files. Now you can link directly between different documentation files, whether you view the documentation on GitHub itself, or locally, using a different markup renderer. You want examples of link definitions and … Read more