[Slackbuilds-users] ReText still broken?

[Didier Spaier]

Hello,

On 05/02/2019 14:17, psychi wrote:
> Hi JCA,
> 
> When it comes to 'module' in Python-Markdown
> <https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown>
> it may mean the extensions inside it. e.g.
> https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/
> 
> I have no problems on 'live preview'. My extensions installed are: toc,
> meta, codehilite.
> 
> BTW, what's the type of your document is? By default it supports markdown,
> while it needs other python modules ( python-docutils
> <https://pypi.org/project/docutils/> ) if you want it to support
> reStructuredText language. Details is on their Github repo:
> https://github.com/retext-project/retext
> 
> Cheers, happy hacking.
> MDrights
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 22:32, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It would seem that the missing python-markdown-math dependency has been
>> sorted out, as ReText now launches without a problem. However, when trying
>> to do a live preview of a document, it complains:
>>
>> Could not parse file contents, check if you have the necessary module
>> <https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown> installed!
>>
>> That "necessary module" link takes one to
>> https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown. This would seem to
>> correspond to the Slackbuilds Markdown package - which is installed in my
>> system.

FWIW, geany does syntax highlighting for both Markdown and reStruturesText,
as well as many others document types.

Best,

Didier