# recommonmark

**Repository Path**: mirrors_codejamninja/recommonmark

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: recommonmark
- **Description**: A markdown parser for docutils
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-04

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## README

# sphinx-markdown-parser

A `docutils`-compatibility bridge to MarkdownParser and CommonMark.

This allows you to write markdown inside of docutils & sphinx projects.

This was built due to limitations of the existing markdown parsers
supported by sphinx, specifically recommonmark. Features such as support
for tables have been added to this extension.

Contents
--------

* [API Reference](api_ref.md)
* [AutoStructify Component](auto_structify.md)

## Getting Started

To use `sphinx-markdown-parser` inside of Sphinx only takes 2 steps.
First you install it:

```
pip install sphinx-markdown-parser
```

Then add this to your Sphinx conf.py:

```
# for MarkdownParser
from sphinx_markdown_parser.parser import MarkdownParser

source_parsers = {
    '.md': MarkdownParser,
}

source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']

# for CommonMarkParser
from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser

source_parsers = {
    '.md': CommonMarkParser,
}

source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
```

This allows you to write both `.md` and `.rst` files inside of the same project.

### Links

For all links in commonmark that aren't explicit URLs, they are treated as cross references with the [`:any:`](http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/markup/inline.html#role-any) role. This allows referencing a lot of things including files, labels, and even objects in the loaded domain.

### AutoStructify

AutoStructify makes it possible to write your documentation in Markdown, and automatically convert this
into rST at build time. See [the AutoStructify Documentation](http://recommonmark.readthedocs.org/en/latest/auto_structify.html)
for more information about configuration and usage.

To use the advanced markdown to rst transformations you must add `AutoStructify` to your Sphinx conf.py.

```python
# At top on conf.py (with other import statements)
import recommonmark
from recommonmark.transform import AutoStructify

# At the bottom of conf.py
def setup(app):
    app.add_config_value('recommonmark_config', {
            'url_resolver': lambda url: github_doc_root + url,
            'auto_toc_tree_section': 'Contents',
            }, True)
    app.add_transform(AutoStructify)
```

See https://github.com/rtfd/recommonmark/blob/master/docs/conf.py for a full example.

AutoStructify comes with the following options. See [http://recommonmark.readthedocs.org/en/latest/auto_structify.html](http://recommonmark.readthedocs.org/en/latest/auto_structify.html) for more information about the specific features.

* __enable_auto_toc_tree__: enable the Auto Toc Tree feature.
* __auto_toc_tree_section__: when True, Auto Toc Tree will only be enabled on section that matches the title.
* __enable_auto_doc_ref__: enable the Auto Doc Ref feature. **Deprecated**
* __enable_math__: enable the Math Formula feature.
* __enable_inline_math__: enable the Inline Math feature.
* __enable_eval_rst__: enable the evaluate embedded reStructuredText feature.
* __url_resolver__: a function that maps a existing relative position in the document to a http link

## Development

You can run the tests by running `tox` in the top-level of the project.

We are working to expand test coverage,
but this will at least test basic Python 2 and 3 compatability.

## Why a bridge?

Many python tools (mostly for documentation creation) rely on `docutils`.
But [docutils][dc] only supports a ReStructuredText syntax.

For instance [this issue][sphinx-issue] and [this StackOverflow
question][so-question] show that there is an interest in allowing `docutils`
to use markdown as an alternative syntax.

## Why another bridge to docutils?

recommonmark uses the [python implementation][pcm] of [CommonMark][cm] while
[remarkdown][rmd] implements a stand-alone parser leveraging [parsley][prs].

Both output a [`docutils` document tree][dc] and provide scripts
that leverage `docutils` for generation of different types of documents.

## Acknowledgement

recommonmark is mainly derived from [remarkdown][rmd] by Steve Genoud and
leverages the python CommonMark implementation.

It was originally created by [Luca Barbato][lu-zero],
and is now maintained in the Read the Docs (rtfd) GitHub organization.

[cm]: http://commonmark.org
[pcm]: https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py
[rmd]: https://github.com/sgenoud/remarkdown
[prs]: https://github.com/python-parsley/parsley
[lu-zero]: https://github.com/lu-zero

[dc]: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/doctree.html
[sphinx-issue]: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/825/markdown-capable-sphinx
[so-question]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2471804/using-sphinx-with-markdown-instead-of-rst