A plug-in to allow Trac to render Markdown formatted text

I would love to see this. It would make such a difference to working with non-technical wiki authors.

I'd really dig this, too

Very very easy solution is here.

## mkdown.py -- easy markdown formatter without trac links.
rom markdown import markdown

# as for wiki-macro
def execute(hdf, txt, env):
    return markdown(txt.encode('utf-8'))

This macro does not handle trac links at all but it might be possible using extension mechanism of current Markdown (1.6).

but it might be possible using extension mechanism of current Markdown (1.6).

A complete solution would be so fantastic, I'm weeping with anticipation.

I wrote this today. It's a little buggy, but seems usable. Things like [Bob's patch]([40]) or [camel case]: CamelCase work. <CamelCase> works but shows the whole url.

"""Trac plugin for Markdown Syntax (with links)

Everything markdown-ed as a link target is run through Trac's wiki
formatter to get a substitute url.

Tested with Trac 0.8.1 and python-markdown 1.4 on Debian GNU/Linux.

Brian Jaress
2007-01-04
"""

from re import sub, compile, search, I
from markdown import markdown
from trac.WikiFormatter import wiki_to_oneliner

#links, autolinks, and reference-style links
LINK = compile(
    r'(\]\()([^) ]+)([^)]*\))|(<)([^>]+)(>)|(\n\[[^]]+\]: *)([^ \n]+)(.*\n)'
)

HREF = compile(r'href=[\'"]?([^\'" ]*)')

def execute(hdf, txt, env):
    abs = env.abs_href.base
    abs = abs[:len(abs) - len(env.href.base)]
    def convert(m):
        pre, target, suf = filter(None, m.groups())
        url = search(
                HREF,
                wiki_to_oneliner(target, hdf, env, env.get_db_cnx()),
                I).groups()[0]
        #Trac creates relative links, which markdown won't touch inside
        # <autolinks> because they look like HTML
        if pre == '<' and url != target:
            pre += abs
        return pre + str(url) + suf

    return markdown(sub(LINK, convert, txt))

+ for markdown support

However the only way Markdown is really going to be adopted this way is if we can use it as the default text markup. As soon as we need # etc and to close then Markdown will not get used.

So we need it to be in trac.ini to support default without //!/# / tricks.

There is implementation of markdown in pure js: http://www.attacklab.net/showdown-gui.html And another js improvement of it (with syntax highlighting): http://softwaremaniacs.org/playground/showdown-highlight/

For the trac version I have this needs a tiny edit:

from trac.wiki.formatter import wiki_to_oneliner 

I'd like to see we can write in trac using Markdown syntax too...

And also, here an Markdown Extra which extended original Markdown

http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/

Markdown plugin for Trac 0.11 (ebta)

i've adapted version by brian for Trac version 0.11.

• copy file (Markdown.py from attachments) into yourproject/plugins.
• install markdown (e.g. apt-get install python-markdown on Debian/Ubuntu).
• restart webserver and enjoy

you can use it as wiki processor:

   {{{
   #!Markdown
   
   markdown text goes here
   =======================
   ...
   }}}

(notice the capital letter M)

if you get this error:

Trac detected an internal error:

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'parent'

you have to get the latest python-markdown version with unicode support from http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Releases and install it on your (most probably debian) system with

python setup.py install

after a server restart you should be able to use markdown

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