enable some useful markdown extensions and typography improvements

pelicanconf.py

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ ARTICLE_URL = 'blog/{slug}.html'
 ARTICLE_SAVE_AS = 'blog/{slug}.html'
 
 CUSTOM_CSS = "static/custom.css"
+# enable typography pre-processing for nicer appearance
+TYPOGRIFY = True
 
 TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Berlin'
 
@@ -64,6 +66,17 @@ DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10
 #RELATIVE_URLS = True
 
 # Multilang
+
+MARKDOWN = {
+        'extension_configs': {
+            'markdown.extensions.codehilite': {'use_pygments': True},
+            'markdown.extensions.fenced_code': {},
+            'markdown.extensions.footnotes': {},
+            'markdown.extensions.tables': {},
+            'markdown.extensions.attr_list': {},
+            },
+        'output_format': 'html5',
+}
 DEFAULT_LANG = 'de'
 OG_LOCALE = "de_DE"
 LOCALE = ("de_DE", "de_DE.utf8")