pymdown's Tabbed extension

[starpit]

pymdown has a nice Tabbed extension

I thought I would take a quick stab at a rehype plugin for this. It seems fairly straightforward, with one exception: pymdown does something strange (in my opinion) w.r.t. indentation. The content of each tab is indented, which runs contrary to the normal interpretation of indentation in markdown.

Am I correct in guessing that doing this at the rehype level would not be possible (at least, coming at this from react-markdown)? As far as I can tell, my rehype extension is given AST nodes that already have <pre> for indented blocks... so a bit too late of an intercept point?

Here you can see that I kinda got it working, but without the indentation that pymdown supports (requires?)

Screenshot of my hack

[wooorm]

If you’re going to go with non-standard extensions to the language, I recommend using directives as it’s at least well thought out and solves many use cases, and it’s the most likely to become standard.
More info on whether it’s a good idea to extend markdown and how to do it at different levels is detailed here: https://github.com/micromark/micromark#extensions.