kramdown
kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions. (by gettalong)
CommonMarker
Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate (by gjtorikian)
| kramdown | CommonMarker | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | |
| 1,696 | 405 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.0 | |
| 9 months ago | 22 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
kramdown
Posts with mentions or reviews of kramdown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.
- Have Markdown lists be able to start at an arbitrary number
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Add a table of contents (TOC) to your blog posts
The Kramdown markdown parser-converter that is used by Jekyll, has the ability to generate a TOC. If all is want is a TOC, it does the job.
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VS Code Markdown Preview + GH Pages?
Fundamentally, I'd love for my math/markdown notes to be portable, not just viewable via a markdown reader. Ideally, with as little work as possible I'd LOVE it if I could just publish my .md as Jekyll posts hosted on Github Pages. Unfortunately as far as I can tell, GH Pages used kramdown which accomodates math-mode for MathJax rather than KaTeX.
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Understand the basics of Ruby on Rails by building a blog app
Kramdown: https://github.com/gettalong/kramdown
CommonMarker
Posts with mentions or reviews of CommonMarker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-11.
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Magnus 0.5 released (Library for writing Ruby gems in Rust)
commonmarker (as of 1.0.0.pre)
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#GopherDiggingRuby: Make a dev.to link fetcher in Ruby
And it turns out that there's a popular Ruby Gem that lets us parse a Markdown file and then walk over its nodes (nodes as in text, links, images, etc): CommonMarker! To get it, first run bundle init to create a Gemfile, then in the Gemfile, add the line
What are some alternatives?
When comparing kramdown and CommonMarker you can also consider the following projects:
Redcarpet - The safe Markdown parser, reloaded.
pandoc - Universal markup converter
word-to-markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents
Tocer - A command line interface for generating Markdown table of contents.
Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).
reverse_markdown - Ruby gem to convert html into markdown
markdown-it - Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
markdown_exec - Interactively select and execute fenced code blocks in markdown files. Build complex scripts by naming and requiring blocks. Log resulting scripts and output. Re-run scripts.