How to make markdown headings be left justified?

[ssbarnea]

The default behavior of rich is to render all headings in Markdown() as justified, and that is not really how markdown is currently rendered by most other renderers, as they prefer to just keep the title left justified instead of centered.

How can I change this?

[willmcgugan]

See Markdown.elements

[TechWiz-3]

Cool thanks a lot for the response. I tried it on my system as well and it worked.

Do you think it would be worth submitting a PR? I think I can figure out how to make the heading justification configurable, would be good learning for me 🤔

[willmcgugan]

It's not monkey patching. I designed it so that you could customize the various blocks.

@TechWiz-3 That's not something I would accept. But I'm sure you could find plenty things to contribute to. See the issues tab...

[ssbarnea]

My WIP code to alter the rendering is at ansible/ansible-lint#2486 but I am still trying to find a way to disable the border that is added on code snippets and to disable their custom background. By looking at what happens I expected to find a box somewhere and an additional one space indentation added to each line.

[TechWiz-3]

I designed it so that you could customize the various blocks.

So it can be changed to left without changing the source code? Sorry if I'm being dense, I've read through the docs numerous times and looked at markdown.py and still have no idea 😅

[ssbarnea]

Sadly, with the recent change in rich 13.2, the override we used no longer works so basically we are forced to accept the "centered" decision that rich made.

It is bit annoying as almost nobody rendering markdown to html does centered headers, is only a rich thing, probably inspired from by the lynx browser.