gallery shortcode in markdown

[Tanja]

Hi!

I’ve used the .rst shortcode to insert galleries in my posts for a while and it works as expected (especially now with the separate template). However, for various reasons I’d prefer to use Markdown but I can’t seem to figure out how to insert a gallery into a post with a shortcode in a markdown file.
I thought ‘how hard can it be to fix that myself?’ based on the .rst gallery-directive, and looking at the markdown podcast-plugin to see how to handle a shortcode and how to match etc.

Well, famous last words, I guess, because I stayed up waaaay past my bedtime and fried my brain and still haven’t figured it out.

Could this be added into a future release? It seems like something other people would use too…
Or could someone point me in the right direction to fix this myself?

Thanks in advance!

~ Tanja

[Roberto Alsina]

Hi!

Yes, making the gallery directive into a shortcode is not exactly easy :-P

I want to do it, just not right away, but I have added it to issue #2809

https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/issues/2809

That's not a promise that it will get done fast (some issues I have fixed a couple of years after creating) but it's a promise that it's in my TODO.

Hope you have fun using Nikola even if this feature is not there yet :-)

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[Tanja]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer. Nikola is always my go-to if I need something simple to set up and easy to use ;)

I gave it another shot and after looking at the mdx_gist.py plugin I came up with something that works (for me): https://github.com/tannie/md_gallery/

It has none of the json/flowr/script parts, but I don’t really need those anyway (for this purpose). Not sure if I did everything right with getting the output folder name though…

Kind regards,

~ Tanja

[Chris Warrick]

That one looks interesting — perhaps you could submit it to the repo
at https://github.com/getnikola/plugins ?

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[Thomas Janotta]

Hi Tanja,

this script is great. How can one at least add the name of the image (without underscores) as alt attribute? (for the gallery-lightbox)

Thanks...

[Thomas Janotta]

Hi,

I found a way, but I don't kno if i can *cascade* the functions.

after

for img in photo_array:

add the "alt"-variable, remove the file type, replace undescore with spaces and capitalise (title) it.

img_alt = img['url']
img_alt = img_alt[:-4]
img_alt = img_alt.replace('_', ' ')
img_alt = img_alt.title()

then add it to the img tag

img_src.set('alt',img_alt)

WOW.

[jmcp]

Hi Thomas,
if you're using v8 then you can add arbitrary metadata for gallery images. Please have a look at the manual section https://github.com/getnikola/nikola/blob/master/docs/manual.rst#images-and-galleries


James

[Thomas Janotta]

 Hi James,

yes I had this, but it seems the gallery use rst, but my pages use md. I tested the mix but the md-gallery is good for me.

I found that I can directly acess the title:

img_alt = img['title']

as it is in the metadata.yml, this is fine for me.