Can I disable WHITESPACE_RULE just for Markdown?

[yzhang-gh]

Thanks for the great extension!

Just wondering whether it is possible to configure ltex.disabledRules (or ltex.hiddenFalsePositives) specific to Markdown documents. For example, I'd like to disable WHITESPACE_RULE as I usually add extra spaces in Markdown tables to make the content aligned.

[valentjn]

Thanks for the suggestion. Up to now, LT_EX didn't treat tables specially and forwarded them directly to LanguageTool, which led to the false positives (which have annoyed me as well). Actually, it's surprising there were not more false positives with all the dashes and pipes.

It's better to solve the problem at its root, i.e., support tables instead of disabling rules for the whole document, which might lead to false negatives elsewhere.

I didn't know this, but there are lots of extensions for LT_EX's Markdown parser Flexmark. One of them is for tables as in GitHub Flavored Markdown. I enabled that and I think the false negatives about too much whitespace in tables should be gone now/in the next release of LT_EX 👍

Regarding the general question, I'm hesitating to (further) split settings for different markup languages (or enable users to apply them only for specific markup languages), as this will increase UX complexity, and when done consistently, all settings could be split up like that. Ideally, in my head, LT_EX is a one-size-fits-all solution that does all the heavy lifting in the background, and users shouldn't have to worry too much about doing/configuring things differently for different markup languages.

[yzhang-gh]

I think the false negatives about too much whitespace in tables should be gone now/in the next release of LTEX 👍

That will be great 😄.

Regarding the general question, I'm hesitating to (further) split settings for different markup languages

I see. And I think it (extra config) won't add much value once the GFM table can be recognized.

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BTW, I found another related issue, which is about the Markdown line break (equals to <br> in HTML).

A paragraph  <!-- two trailing whitespaces here -->
still this paragraph

A paragraph<!-- GFM -->
still this paragraph

I got

A paragraph  
            ^ "Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace. LTeX - WHITESPACE_RULE"
still this paragraph
^

A paragraph
          ^
still this paragraph
^

[valentjn]

There was a bug when handling \r\n line terminators (so I guess you're on Windows), which resulted in this false positive. This is fixed now as well.

[yzhang-gh]

That's true 😄. Many thanks.