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If your plugin adds its own Markdown syntax — a callout block, a shortcode-like construct, a custom inline mark — you've historically done it by assigning a closure to Grav's Parsedown instance and registering a trigger character by hand. That approach still works in Grav 2.0, and it always will....

Markdown is the heart of writing content in Grav, and for Grav 2.0 we gave it a proper pass. The engine is still the same fast, Parsedown-based renderer it has always been, and everything you've written over the years still renders exactly as before. What's new is that Grav now understands a muc...