mdx - Template Markdown

[alikindsys]

Markdown is amazing, but one thing that is a constant pain on it is having neatly formatted documents, it would be nice if markdown had support for templates on itself, and that includes advanced latex support. Say for example i'd want to write an chemical equation with chemfig, or draw a molecule from a smiles specification using latex.

The main design is to have a core that parses and generates latex code from two files (i'm copying what latex does with .sty and .tex files, but in a much more cleaner design (i personally hate backslash syntax))

this will require the creation of an abstracted parsing library cause parser combinators are just too easy.

mdx - Mardown Extension

Script files that provide functions that parse text elements. The core mardown parser would be written in one of those.

#[mark(std)]
mod markdown;
exports {bold, italic, ...}
import {into, bold} from utils 
matchrules = rules! {
      __bold |> __italic |> end
}


meta __bold(text: Seq[char]) {
    ["**", char, "**"] into "${proc!(char)}".bold()
}

meta __italic(text: Seq[char]) {
  ["*", char, "*"] into "${proc!(char)}".italic(),
  ["_", char, "_"] into "${proc!(char)"}.italic()
}

/// A More interesting parser, urls.
meta __url(text: Seq[char]) {
  ["[", text, "]", "(", url, ")"] into link!(url, proc!(text?)) 
}

meta __image(text: Seq[char]){
  ["!", (\x -> __url(x)) as url ] into url.withMeta(metadata::Image)
}

xmd - eXtended Markdown

The files that will be compiled into latex.