Jekyll Markdown Link Converter

Converts Markdown-linked documents to link to their respective HTML outputs.

Usage

1. Clone this repository into your Jekyll source directory's _plugins folder.
2. Somewhere in your _config.yml file, add the line markdown: JekyllMarkdownLinkConverter.

Motivation

Let's say you author several markdown documents, each which conveniently link to each other.

• ./Document A.md

  ---
  permalink: document-a.html
  ---
  
  See [Document B](Document B.md) for more details.

• ./Document B.md

  ---
  permalink: document-b.html
  ---
  
  See [Document A](Document A.md) for more details.

Problematically, Jekyll/Kramdown won't convert these to in the produced HTML that you might specify in the permalink.

• ./document-a.html

  See <a href="Document B.md">Document B</a> for more details.

• ./document-b.html

  See <a href="Document A.md">Document A</a> for more details.

This Jekyll plugin is a basic workaround for this issue. In the above example, it will instead output the following HTML documents.

• ./document-a.html

  See <a href="document-b.html">Document B</a> for more details.

• ./document-b.html

  See <a href="document-b.html">Document A</a> for more details.

Expectations

Each markdown document needs to be permalinked to its current filename, after its name has been

1. Lowercased.
2. Had consecutive whitespace and individual dots replaced with hyphens.