Use markdown on comments about www.freedomsponsors.org

[tonylampada]

Found this --> https://github.com/isaacs/github-flavored-markdown/blob/master/scripts/showdown.js

Ran a few tests, it's already way better than no formatting at all.
But I'd still rather format it on the server side. Syntax highlighting for code blocks would be nice too.

[tonylampada]

Deployed to production, but with a javascript renderer.
It works, but an actual Python renderer is the right tool for the job.

I tried combining this with this. But the results are not so good.

relevant code --> https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org/blob/master/djangoproject/core/models.py
(see IssueComment.toHTML)

If anyone knows of a working Python GFM implementation, please let me know!
Syntax highlighting is a plus.

[tonylampada]

A few pointers

• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/python-brasil/github$20flavored$20markdown/python-brasil/-UjbCZI9-B8/JTTX_v_ND8kJ
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11943089/github-flavored-markdown-in-python

[tonylampada]

Got a working sample with misaka and Pygments, as pointed out by Eduardo Cereto here (thanks dude!)

A better renderer - with syntax highlighting - should be up soon.

[tonylampada]

For the record, here's what one will need to reproduce it:

• Install Misaka and Pygments
• Setup a rendering funcion more or less like this.

There's a running sample in the test environment. Will be in production soon.

[tonylampada]

Ok, done
http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/markdown_formatting/

[Depado]

Man, you're actually the only lead I had to find out how to do that. Thanks a lot for the great work.

[tonylampada]

Yay, glad this was useful to someone :)