rdiscount -> kramdown

[katyhuff]

First, thanks for left. I like and use and rely on it.

Now... I see that github is no longer going to support rdiscount in jekyll pages (you're aware of this too, I see: github/pages-gem#179). That's cool. I'm down with that. Trouble is, moving from rdiscount to kramdown in left has mysteriously screwed up my index page rendering. This could totally be my flawed use of left. I hope you'll let me know if that's the case. Here's the source.

I had my index page looking like:

I made (more or less) the following changes to my config.yml file:

- markdown: rdiscount
- rdiscount:
-     extensions: [smart]
+ markdown: kramdown
+ kramdown:
+    input: GHM
+    hard_wrap: false

Now, it renders terribly.

Any idea what I should do on that front?

[holman]

This brings up a good point; I went and updated Left to use Jekyll 3 in #44. That might be helpful for you. I'm also going to take a peek at your stuff next- brb!

[holman]

Lookin' sharp to me!

...did you restart your server? :) Are there any errors that the server is spitting out?

[katyhuff]

I changed it back to rdiscount since it's a live site and I didn't want it
to be ugly all night. (
https://github.com/thehackerwithin/berkeley/blob/gh-pages/_config.yml).
If you make just the one change, you'll see it fail:

- markdown: rdiscount
+ markdown: kramdown

I'll push an ugly version to katyhuff.github.io/berkeley/

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Lookin' sharp to me!

[image: screen shot 2016-02-03 at 8 54 42 pm]
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...did you restart your server? :) Are there any errors that the server is
spitting out?

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[katyhuff]

alright katyhuff.github.io/berkeley/ is kramdown-ified now.

[holman]

So I can reproduce it and it's really strange. Going to keep looking at it because I'm pretty sure it's something obvious that I'm missing.

[holman]

Cool, figured it out:

diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index adad3c4..7cfd329 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ markdown: rdiscount
 kramdown:
   input: GFM
   hard_wrap: false
+  parse_block_html: true
 github: thehackerwithin
 url: http://thehackerwithin.github.com/berkeley 
 name: Hacker Within
@@ -12,4 +13,3 @@ description: An initial blog and site for THW at UCB
 twitter: hackerwithin
 gravatar_url: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0203c034a145af6cc2576d56cdb4cf73
 disqus_username: hackerwithinadmin

I noticed that it didn't parse the Markdown when wrapped in an HTML tag. According to the kramdown docs, parse_block_html is disabled by default, so it was seeing the HTML tag and bailing. Guess those Markdown renderers aren't quite the same.

Let me know if this works for you!

[katyhuff]

Heck yes!!
Thanks @holman !

[katyhuff]

Hi there @holman . I think we have to reopen this. It looks like they finished the transition to kramdown yesterday. I assume that change caused things to look ugly again:

for me: https://thehackerwithin.github.com/berkeley/upcoming.html
and for you: https://zachholman.com/left/

I tried a couple of changes to my config file such as:

 markdown: kramdown
+highlighter: rouge
 kramdown:
   input: GFM
   hard_wrap: false
   parse_block_html: true
+  parse_span_html: true
+  auto_ids: true
+  smart_quotes: lsquo,rsquo,ldquo,rdquo
+  enable_coderay: false
+  syntax_highlighter: rouge

none of these additions helped.

[holman]

Yours is fixed if you hit the http version instead of https; you have insecure content warnings so your browser isn't rendering the styles.

I'm fixing zachholman.com/left as soon as anything remotely works on github.

[katyhuff]

oh geez.

Right you are. Sorry for bugging you about that.