My custom markdown flavour

Markdown in HTML blocks

Since I couldn't be bothered to implement the correct logic and this works just as well,

It just barely colliding into inline HTML markup but processes any markdown it finds within.

So now something like this

<div class='txt-c'>[View Page Source](/src/2022/nesdown.md)</div>

Block Quotes

This isn't anything new either, but I cant ever remember the syntax for other flavours

>>>
Be the change you want to see in the world.
>>> Mahtma Gandhi

Inlines

Because I could, I barely use these...

==Pay attention to me==

Syntax Highlighting

This is nothing new, but the neat part is that its done entirely in the markdown generation step.
So no javascript library is required later, EDIT: Actually I lied, I've shifted to using highlight js because getting source-highlight working on windows is a PITA and I want my site to be able to be developed no matter what software I'm using at the time, I might look into a Python based solution later, will have to see.

#include <stdio.h>

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
    long i;
    float x2, y;
    const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

    x2 = number * 0.5F;
    y  = number;
    i  = * ( long * ) &y;                       // evil floating point bit level hacking
    i  = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );               // what the fuck? 
    y  = * ( float * ) &i;
    y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 1st iteration
//  y  = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );   // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

    return y;
}

int main () {
    printf("Hello world\n");
}	

Transformers

I built it initially around the idea of these, but essentially they're like functions that take raw text as input and output html.
The raw text can really be anything, which is where I find them really useful.

And making a transformer is as simply as creating a new bash function.

EDIT: If I knew TCL existed before I would have simply used TCL 😢 but now I have to live with this mostrosity

Table Transformer

Markdown table syntax is just painful. Sure, it's readable in text form but thats only if you don't have a mess of differently sized columns and data values. (which is really easy) And if you do, its painful to edit manually,
you always gotta delegate to some tool which is a whole mess

Since of course I could do a better job than all the bright people that have spent a lot of time thinking about the markdown syntax, This was what I came up with and to be entirely honestly, I'm quite happy with it, It's not very clear but it's decently readable and fortunatley easy to modify as well.

#TABLE Fruits   Vegetables
       Apple    Carrot
       Orange   Tomato
       Banana   Eggplant
#END TABLE

Verbatim Transformer

A crutch to deal with nesdown not having any idea of what its doing when transforming markdown syntax, Just spits out the input its given and ~sort of~ guarrentes that it wont be changed in any way.

(f) Fold Transformer

A slight syntactic sugar over <detail> & <summary>

#f It's a secret
I said it was a secret >:(
#END f

Problems

Currently to make new lines break like I want, A lot of <br>s are scattered throughout the output.

Besides that, the output is really quite ugly, I know its not meant for a person to read but still...

EDIT: The poor browser has to choke down my trashy HTML but such is it's poor fate