Re: [Tails-dev] Activating multimarkdown

intrigeri:
> sajolida@??? 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.

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sajolida