commonmarker-pluggable

commonmarker-pluggable adds support for plugins to CommonMarker.

The cmark reference parser used by CommonMarker supports extensions to the CommonMark specification but these are written in C. The commonmarker-pluggable plugin allows users to extend CommonMarker's parsing capabilities with plugins written in Ruby.

The commonmarker-pluggable plugin requires the commonmarker plugin to be installed and configured (instructions here). The only additional step is to add commonmarker-pluggable to your Gemfile like so:

gem 'commonmarker'
gem 'commonmarker-pluggable'

Once commonmarker-pluggable is installed, you can add plugins that manipulate the Markdown document parsed by cmark.

Plugins are automatically detected by commonmark-pluggable if they are within the Commonmarker::Plugin namespace as demonstrated below. Please note that the plugin itself must be of type Module.

A plugin must implement the self.call() module method. This method takes one argument: doc. This is a CommonMarker::Node object representing the top-most node of a parsed Markdown document.

An example plugin is set out below:

module CommonMarker
  module Plugin
    module Example
      def self.call(doc)
        doc.walk do |node|
          node.delete if node.string_content == 'To be deleted'
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

commonmarker-pluggable was originally written for use with Jekyll. If you want to write a plugin that is both a CommonMarker plugin and a Jekyll plugin, you need to ensure that commonmarker-pluggable is installed as a Jekyll plugin. There are other ways to do this, but the easiest method is to include commonmarker-pluggable in the :jekyll_plugins group in your Gemfile:

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'commonmarker-pluggable'
  gem 'jekyll-commonmark'
  ...
end

Found a bug? I'd love to know about it. The best way is to report them in the Issues section on GitHub.

If you're interested in contributing to commonmarker-pluggable, feel free to fork and submit a pull request.

The commonmarker-pluggable plugin uses Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.

The commonmarker-pluggable plugin is released into the public domain. See LICENSE.md for more details.