sphinx/doc/usage/markdown.rst
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Update Markdown doc (#5913)
* update Markdown doc

after relase of ecommonmark version 0.5.0
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.. highlight:: python
.. _markdown:
========
Markdown
========
`Markdown`__ is a lightweight markup language with a simplistic plain text
formatting syntax. It exists in many syntactically different *flavors*. To
support Markdown-based documentation, Sphinx can use `recommonmark`__.
recommonmark is a Docutils bridge to `CommonMark-py`__, a Python package for
parsing the `CommonMark`__ Markdown flavor.
__ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
__ https://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
__ https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py
__ https://commonmark.org/
Configuration
-------------
To configure your Sphinx project for Markdown support, proceed as follows:
#. Install the Markdown parser *recommonmark*::
pip install --upgrade recommonmark
.. note::
The configuration as explained here requires recommonmark version
0.5.0 or later.
#. Add *recommonmark* to the
:confval:`list of configured extensions <extensions>`::
extensions = ['recommonmark']
.. versionchanged:: 1.8
Version 1.8 deprecates and version 3.0 removes the ``source_parsers``
configuration variable that was used by older *recommonmark* versions.
#. If you want to use Markdown files with extensions other than ``.md``, adjust
the :confval:`source_suffix` variable. The following example configures
Sphinx to parse all files with the extensions ``.md`` and ``.txt`` as
Markdown::
source_suffix = {
'.rst': 'restructuredtext',
'.txt': 'markdown',
'.md': 'markdown',
}
#. You can further configure *recommonmark* to allow custom syntax that
standard *CommonMark* doesn't support. Read more in the `recommonmark
documentation`__.
__ https://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_structify.html