Github CommonMark Extensions — extensions • commonmark

The Github fork of cmark supports several markdown extensions which provide features which are not (yet) in the official commonmark spec.

Usage

list_extensions()

Details

Currently the following extensions are supported:

table support rendering of tables: gfm-spec section 4.10
strikethrough via ~~sometext~~ syntax: gfm-spec section 6.5
autolink automatically turn URLs into hyperlinks: gfm-spec section 6.9
tagfilter blacklist html tags: title textarea style xmp iframe noembed noframes script plaintext: gfm-spec section 6.11
tasklist turns certain list items into checkboxes: gfm-spec section 5.3

See the full spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown.

Examples

print(list_extensions())
#> [1] "table"         "strikethrough" "autolink"      "tagfilter"    
#> [5] "tasklist"