mezzanine-mdown 0.1a3
Markdown for RichText content in Mezzanine.
License: MIT
Keywords: django,mezzanine,markdown,wmd

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mezzanine-mdown
===============

This package provides widgets and filters for mezzanine that enable admins
to use markdown formatting to create their site content, rather than using
the tinymce editor to generate html used in *rich content* types, such as 
*rich pages* and *blog posts*.

Installation
------------

Get the package
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

pip::

    user@home:~$ pip install mezzanine-mdown

easy_install::

    user@home:~$ easy_install mezzanine-mdown


Prep the static media
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Using the excellent
`staticfiles <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-staticfiles>`_ app, mdown's
static files should get picked up automatically.

If the staticfiles app is not your style, you'll need to locate the install
location for the ``mdown`` package (usually your python interpreter's
``site-packages`` directory) and copy/symlink ``mdown/static/mdown`` into your
project ``site_media`` directory.


Configuration
-------------

First off, add ``mdown`` to your list of ``INSTALLED_APPS`` in your project settings module.

With the app installed, you need to make a couple choices. You'll have to
specify the ``RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS`` and ``RICHTEXT_FILTER`` values in your
settings module.

RICHTEXT_WIDGET_CLASS
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This package provides 2 options for this setting.


**mdown.forms.WmdWidget**
    *Activates the WMD rich text editor.* **(recommended)**

**mdown.forms.PlainWidget**
    *Use a plain Textarea (no rich text editor).*


RICHTEXT_FILTER
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Again, there are 2 options for this setting.

**mdown.filters.codehilite**
    *Renders the content using markdown with the
    codehilite extension enabled.*

**mdown.filters.plain**
    *Renders the content using vanilla markdown formatting.*

Extra Steps
-----------

Pygments Styles
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Using the management command ``pygments_styles`` you can generate css to 
colorize code blocks parsed by the codehilite filter.

**Note:** this requires pygments to be installed (use ``pip install pygments``
or ``easy_install pygments`` to use this feature).

Invoke the command with no args to see a usage message and list of available
color schemes on your system.::

    user@home:~/mysite$ ./manage.py pygments_styles
    Usage: ./manage.py pygments_styles <scheme_name>
    Available color schemes:
      borland
      bw
      colorful
      default
      ... [ snip ] ...

Invoking with the scheme's name as an argument will print the css to stdout, which you can 
redirect to a file like so: ::

    user@home:~/mysite$ ./manage.py pygment_styles colorful > site_media/css/pygments.css

In additon to this single scheme method, the command also accepts the ``--all``
flag, which will generate styles for all available, but with one key
difference: each scheme is prefixed with its name as a css class name. This
is handy during theme development as you can quickly switch pygments schemes
just by setting the class on the body tag to your choice of scheme without
having to regenerate css files constantly.

Once you've got a css file generated, simply add it to your site's base
template to get your code "pretty" printed.


Updating Theme Templates
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Themes that were based on the default theme and were created prior to 
**Mezzanine's 0.11.3 release** will most likely not have the ``richtext_filter``
applied to *rich content*. To correct this, you simply have to update the 
templates for these content types so that the filter is used.

For example, in the default theme, the 
``templates/blog/blog_post_detail.html`` had a line that  was updated from: ::

    {{ blog_post.content|safe }}

to: ::

    {{ blog_post.content|richtext_filter|safe }}

Just ensure that the ``safe`` filter comes after the ``richtext_filter``.