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Archive for January 22nd, 2025

Some notes on reStructuredText in vscode now that reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

For my list archive; need to check this out because reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned, deferring much of its behaviour to Esbonio.

Anyway:

For me, figuring that out under pressure how to get this to working was too much, so I deferred that to a later point in time and perform a reStructuredText to Markdown conversion in stead (I wasn’t using very esoteric .RST features, and since most people use Markdown anyway it made the documents even more accessible for others to extend). Links on that conversion:

Both Markdown and reStructuredText are problematic for background images, so I opted to cut the conference background slide in half, put the top part above the title, and the bottom half below the final part of the presentation, as this didn’t really work well either:

Oh, and for Visual Studio Code:

Queries:

--jeroen

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Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).

I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).

So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.

Well, actually… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Blogging, Configuration Management, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, YAML | Leave a Comment »