Improve interaction with prettier and other markdown formatters

[Midnighter]

I like to use a formatter for markdown files, for example, prettier. Generally, this works really well since mostly we are only using markdown. However, prettier doesn't play well with references to classes. I can create references using [MyClass][package.MyClass] but prettier insists on making everything lowercase in the second pair of brackets. This is a little annoying since it means I can't use pre-commit hooks for those files where I use this.

Has anyone experienced the same and found a good fix? Thanks for any input.

[vladfaust]

I hate when people break standards and this becomes a norm.

[squidfunk]

@vladfaust Python Markdown is based on Gruber's official Markdown implementation, which wasn't standardized, but which predates standardized implementations like CommonMark (in the case of CommonMark it's 10 years). We use Python Markdown because MkDocs uses it, as CommonMark was probably rather new at that time. However, I agree that third party tooling support could be better, which is why we're evaluating how to improve it as part of our efforts on foundational work ☺️

[vladfaust]

Thank you for a thorough and educational response, @squidfunk. I'm sorry for my arrogance.