markdown-it-footnote VS chroma

There are some dialects of markdown that support footnotes, such as https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it-footnote

In Eleventy, a footnote’s HTML begins like this if one is using the most typical footnotes-ready Markdown setup, i.e., the markdown-it parser combined with the markdown-it-footnote plugin:

markdown-it-footnote

In Hugo and its built-in Chroma syntax highlighting, a code block begins with:

Hugo -> goldmark -> goldmark-highlighting -> chroma

I've used a markdown to html converter to convert my blog posts into HTML with very nice and customizable code samples... in my case I used Go's Blackfriday library with bfchroma[1] doing syntax highlighting with Chroma[2]. To add your language to Chroma you have to provide a lexer, which in turn is written in Pygments[3] syntax.

[1] https://github.com/Depado/bfchroma/

[2] https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma#supported-languages

[3] https://pygments.org/docs/lexerdevelopment/

quick for generating Html and syntax highlighting code blocks

Chroma

For books from other publishers, I am just hardcoding language directly on an ad hoc basis. I briefly considered off-loading language detection to a library like chroma, but that might be too much work for little benefit.

Great blog, you should definitely do research on how you could implement a syntax highlighter for the code parts. Go Hugo for example, uses Chroma. Nice work 👍