Upgrading markdown plugin from 5.2.2 to 5.3.6: formatting problems throughout

#1

Just upgraded the markdown plugin from 5.2.2 to 5.3.6 and now every markdown tiddler is formatted wrong:

  • no indentation for lists, etc., though it was working before. I had been indenting with 2 spaces.
  • headers marked with ## etc get turned into orderd lists (looking like 1. instead)
  • lists marked with - instead of * aren’t formated as lists but just as plain text.

I didn’t see any plugin settings in the control panel that looked like they control anything like this.

The tiddler types are set to text/x-markdown but changing it to text/markdown (from the dropdown) doesn’t fix it.

What’s going on and how do I get the new markdown plugin to work with this old twiki? (WIll it be fixed but simply upgrading my Twiki?) (This is with TiddlyWIki 5.2.2 by the way.)

#2

Are you sure, that your plugin is active. Both types text/markdown and text/x-markdown should work with the latest version.

You can copy / paste one of your tiddlers to https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/ which should work with the latest markdown plugin.

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#3

It is not a good idea to try and use newer plugins that the core version you are using,

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#4

Plugin was definitely active, because if I manually fixed a tiddler (as described below) it was formatted correctly (except for links, I couldn’t make them work.)

I went ahead and did an upgrade to 5.3.6 and found the following after the upgrade:

  • All markdown formatting was messed up as follows:
    • Indentation for formatting (e.g., nested lists) must be 4 characters, I was using 2. So everything appears as run-on w/o formatting.
    • Even when I fixed the formatting it was still run-on unless I also added blank lines between a line and the subsequent line-to-be-nested (though that was inconsistent)
    • Numerical lists where all items are set to 1. are all formatted as 1. instead of as automatically incrementing numbers. I do this because it is easier than constantly renumbering items when you move things in a list around, or add or remove items.
    • Worst of all: All markdown formatted URL links e.g. [to page foo](https://archive.is/this/is/some/link.html) appear just as shown, except that the url is linkified. That is, not shown as a proper link with link text.

Basically all tiddlers - which in my world are exclusively markdown - are broken. So I think I’ll have to stick with what I have. And I fear I’m going to have to look at true Markdown alternatives, which though not as nice (to me) as TiddlyWiki, nevertheless are true Markdown and have notetaking/notelinking abilities. (Possibly Obsidian.)

#5

Can you provide a reproducible example? So far, markdown has worked fine for me.

#6

tiddlywiki markdown 5.3.6 should use the if syntax. For 5.2.2 wiki, this will definitely cause problems in display. However, there is no problem with syntax parsing and rendering.

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#7

try you markdown on the offical site:

https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown/

Are all your other plugins updated to work with 5.3.6?

Maybe try disabling all plugins except markdown