ILM-md

Custom markdown parser for ILM -- with simple client script for creating ILM documents in a text-editor.

Cool Features

• Yaml front-matter metadata
• Add attributes to headers and blocks
• Understands transliterated glyph characters
• Client URL for creating/viewing formatted content
• Auto paragraph numbering
• Parse to simple HTML or JSON object

Starting an ILM document

1. rename your MD file to use a .html extension
2. paste in this script at the top: <script src="https://chadananda.github.io/ilm-md/dist/ilm-md-inline-debug.js"></script>
3. open file in browser to view formatting
4. see example here: https://chadananda.github.io/ilm-md

Formatting Options

Front-matter

Documents often need meta-data such as title, author, copyright, etc. These can be added at the top of any document with a YAML-style header like this:

---
title: Moby Dick
author: Herman Melville 
description:  The story Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on a previous whaling voyage bit off his leg at the knee.
date_published: October 18, 1851 
characters: Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Moby Dick, Captain Boomer, Starbuck, Stubb, Elijah 
---

Headers and Sections

Text can be split up into sections by use of the H2 header (indicated in Markdown by starting a line with ##).

Block Classes {.likethis}

Classes and attributes can be added to any text block Pandoc-style by appending a line with the list of classes, id and attributes. In the case of headers and sub-headers, these should be added on the same line. (Since Markdown does not support multi-line headers).

## This is a header {.subtitle}

This is a paragraph block without any additional classes.

This a paragraph with dropcaps and blockquote indent.
{.dropcap .blockquote}

Header Attributes include:

• For document: .title .author .subtitle .copyright
• For section numbering:
  • "+", "-" to toggle prefix
  • Literal value like "preface"
  • Specific number to set numering like "44"
• For table of contents
  • toc="" to override table of contents display
  • .toc1, .toc2, .toc3 to specify toc level
• For formatting: .center .right

Block Attributes include

• Formatting: .dropcap .blockquote .center .right
• List styles: .list .verse
• Unnumbered types: .ed .sig .sit .noid

Footnotes

• Footnotes are standard MD ([^#]) but are rendered as blocks immediately following the paragraph

Page Markers

• The tag [pg #] or [pg#] will be rendered

Underscored transliterations

• K_h, D_h, T_h, C_h and Z_h will be rendered as Kh

Rule lines

• Small rules can be done MD style like ---
• Large rules can be done with a long line like --------- or a series of equal signs like ========