Gitbook Plugin: Transform annotated quotes to callouts

This plugin was modified from erixtekila/gitbook-plugin-richquotes to create callouts similar to the ones provided by Sphinx.

How to create callouts

Callouts are an extension of markdown blockquotes. All callouts must start with a h4 header, the callout type, and an optional title. The format for this is:

For Markdown:

> #### type::title
>
> cotent

For AsciiDoc:

> ==== type::title
> 
> content

Supported default callouts are:

• > #### Info::Info
• > #### Note::Note
• > #### Tag::Tag
• > #### Comment::Comment
• > #### Hint::Hint
• > #### Success::Success
• > #### Warning::Warning
• > #### Caution::Caution
• > #### Danger::Danger
• > #### Quote::Quote

Callouts are case-insensitive.

Installation

Add this plugin to your book.json:

{
	"plugins": ["callouts"]
}

Then run gitbook install to download and install the plugin.

Override built-in callouts

You can add user defined or override built-in callouts in book.json file:

{
	"plugins": ["callouts"],
	"pluginsConfig":
	{
		"callouts":
		{
			"star": {
				"alert": "warning",
				"picto": "fa-star"
			}
		}
	}
}

Alert values are:

• primary
• info
• success
• warning
• danger

Examples of each alert type (both "White" and "Night" modes supported) are:

Refer to Font Awesome doc for picto value.

Show type in header

As shown above, the callout type (info, warning, danger, etc.) will be shown in the callout header (type: title). If you do not want to have the type displayed in the header, you can set the showTypeInHeader option to false.

{
    "plugins": ["callouts"],
    "pluginsConfig":
    {
        "callouts":
        {
            "showTypeInHeader": false
        }
    }
}

As long as you have a title defined (ex. type::title) the type will not be displayed in the header. The type will be displayed in the header if no title is defined (ex. type::).