ametaireau/pelican — Issue #204: Python Markdown Extensions missing
Author: fuzzmz
Created: 2012-01-26 16:16:30+00:00
State: open

Despite the option to enable markdown extensions (MD_EXTENSIONS) is being mentioned in the [docs/settings.rst ](https://github.com/ametaireau/pelican/blob/master/docs/settings.rst) it seems that there's no way to activate markdown extensions such as footnotes.

My config is as follows:

```
AUTHOR = 'Serban Constantin'
SITENAME = "QWERTY - fast keystrokes"
SITEURL = 'http://qwerty.fuzz.me.uk'
TIMEZONE = "Europe/London"

DISQUS_SITENAME = "qwertyfuzz"
PDF_GENERATOR = False
REVERSE_CATEGORY_ORDER = True
RELATIVE_URL = True
DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 3
DEFAULT_ORPHANS = 2
LOCALE = ""
OUTPUT_PATH = ('/home/www/qwerty.fuzz.me.uk/')
PATH = ('/home/blog/')
DEFAULT_CATEGORY = ('rand')
MARKUP = ('rst', 'md')

MD_EXTENSIONS = ['footnotes', 'codehilite']

CATEGORY_FEED_RSS = 'feeds/%s.rss.xml'

TWITTER_USERNAME = 'fuzzmz'

STATIC_PATHS = ['images']
```

I have written a post that uses footnotes which can be found [here](http://qwerty.fuzz.me.uk/patterns.html) but the footnotes aren't parsed properly.

I have also tried using MD_EXTENSIONS = ('footnotes', 'codehilite') and MD_EXTENSIONS = (('footnotes', 'codehilite'),) to no avail.