remark-captions

This remark plugin adds custom syntax to add a caption to elements which might benefit from a legend. It wraps the said element in a figure node with figcaption node as last child. It is particularly interesting for use with quotes, images, tables, code blocks.

It follows a "whitelist" approach: for each mdast node type for which you want to allow captioning you'll have to add a configuration property mapping a node type to its caption "trigger".

Syntax

> Do it or do it not, there is no try
Source: A little green man, with a saber larger than himself

This takes what follows Source: until the end of the block containing Source: and puts this inside a figcaption mdast node. What precedes it becomes children of a figure node, the last child of this figure node being figcaption.

Used with rehype, it generates the corresponding HTML elements.

interface figure <: Parent {
  type: 'figure'
  data: {
    hName: 'figure',
  }
}

interface figcaption <: Parent {
  type: 'figcaption'
  data: {
    hName: 'figcaption',
  }
}

This plugin handles two different types of caption/legend nodes :

• internalLegend: when the caption, after being parsed by remark, is inside the captioned element or inside its wrapping paragraph:
  • blockquote
  • image
  • inlineMath
  • iframe
  • ...
• externalLegend: when the caption, after being parsed by remark, is outside the captioned element or after its wrapping paragraph:
  • table
  • code
  • math
  • ...

Installation

npm:

npm install remark-captions

Usage

Dependencies:

const unified = require('unified')
const remarkParse = require('remark-parse')
const stringify = require('rehype-stringify')
const remark2rehype = require('remark-rehype')

const remarkCaptions = require('remark-captions')

Usage:

unified()
  .use(remarkParse)
  .use(remarkCaptions, {
    external: {
      table: 'Table:',
      code: 'Code:',
      math: 'Equation:',
    },
    internal: {
      image: 'Figure:',
    }
  })
  .use(remark2rehype)
  .use(stringify)

By default, it features :

external = {
  table: 'Table:',
  code: 'Code:',
}

internal = {
  blockquote: 'Source:',
  image: 'Figure:',
}

Other examples

This enables you to deal with such a code:

```python
a_highlighted_code('blah')
```
Code: My code *caption*

will yield

{
  type: 'figure',
  data: {
    hName: 'figure'
  },
  children: [
    {
      type: 'code',
      language: 'python',
      value: '\na_highlighted_code(\'blah\')\n'
    },
    {
      type: 'figcaption',
      data: {
        hName: 'figcaption'
      }
      children: [
        {
          type: 'text',
          value: 'My code '
        },
        {
          type: 'em',
          children: [
            {
              type: 'text',
              value: 'caption'
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Tables are also supported, example:

head1| head2
-----|------
bla|bla
Table: figcapt1

Associated with remark-rehype this generates a HTML tree encapsulated inside a <figure> tag

<figure>
  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>head1</th>
        <th>head2</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>bla</td>
        <td>bla</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
  <figcaption>figcapt1</figcaption>
</figure>

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