Not Working with Jekyll CommonMark

[xplosionmind]

The bi-directional links generator doesn't parse links when jekyll-commonmark is used.

[meewgumi]

Hi @xplosionmind, I switched to Commonmark and it's working for me. Hope this helps:

• Demo site
• _config.yml for commonmark options
• Gemfile add gem 'jekyll-commonmark-ghpages'

I used the Github Pages version because it supports Github Flavored Markdown, which helps keep things consistent with the formatting. Plus it enables Github-flavored tables and works with Obsidian!

[maximevaillancourt]

Thanks folks. What do we think about switching the template to Commonmark by default? This way it would offer a standardized experience for the majority of use cases.

[meewgumi]

@maximevaillancourt I like Commonmark for most cases, but I found one interesting drawback: You can no longer use {: .internal-link} notation to add classes or IDs. It looks like this is a Kramdown feature. It doesn't bother me too much since I'm OK switching to HTML classes for this use case.. but if someone has a lot of these links in their site they'll have to go manually update them after fetching upstream

[xplosionmind]

The main issue presented by Commonmark, in my opinion, is definitely the lack of auto-generation of ids for headings.

See this related issue.