Hi I have a question: Should the content of a themes README.md rendered with the noEmptyLineBeforeBlock option in order to be as close as GitHub Flavored Markdown? How could a theme author configure that? Background: There is the blackfriday option: [image] Content formats Both HTML…

Is the issue that a theme author would write their readme in GFM, without the extra lines, and therefore their pages in the theme showcase don’t render correctly?

Yes. And the “preview” check is also done in GFM (via browser). So it’s a bit “surprising” that the rendering is not the same … The readme is not part of the content and a public theme shall be deployed to github - so GFM is kind of relevant for this file …

[image] it-gro: The readme is not part of the content Actually looks like it becomes part of the blackfrayday rendered content: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoThemes/blob/master/buildThemeSite.sh # ~~~ cut ~~~ ./generateThemeSite.sh ${BASEURL} # ~~~ cut ~~~ hugo --quiet -s hugoThemeSite/th…

Thx to @kaushalmodi [image] 'Hardlinebreak' setting in blackfriday is not adding a <br> tag I haven’t tried enabling that extension in config.toml, but it works when added to front matter. Example +++ title = "Hard line break (TOML)" tags = ["blackfriday", "toml"] draft = false [blackfr…

Themes README.md missing the noEmptyLineBeforeBlock option?

it-gro February 5, 2018, 8:18pm 5

Thx to @kaushalmodi

So I now just add
+++
[blackfriday]
extensions = [“noEmptyLineBeforeBlock”]
+++

in the theme README.md

This way the rendered markdown is more similar for GFM and blackfriday …

Topic		Replies	Views
Rendering code blocks properly from .md files support	23	4888	June 18, 2019
Hard linebreaks not working in md support	26	10113	December 1, 2019
Extra lines in code blocks support	20	455	December 15, 2024
Academic cv theme -- multi-line company_name Using Themes	5	187	February 3, 2025
Markdown not adding a <br> when adding a line break support	14	13573	January 20, 2021

Themes README.md missing the noEmptyLineBeforeBlock option?

Related topics