APEX 18.1+ Region Plugin for converting Markdown static source to the HTML. It uses ShowdownJS converter (v1.8.6).

• converting static Markdown to the HTML
• easily customizable with JavaScript Initialization Code attribute

• v1.0.0 20180924 - Initial Release
• v1.0.1 20180926 - Support for &ITEM. substitution

• Import plugin file region_type_plugin_com_apexbyg_blogspot_markdownregion.sql from source directory
• (Optional) To optimize performance upload static files (CSS and JS) from server/nitro/dist directory to Webserver and change File Prefix to point on server directory
• (Optional) Compile package pck_markdown_region_plugin (from source directory) in DB schema (available to APEX parsing schema) and change parameter Render Function Name to pck_markdown_region_plugin.f_render

You can customize region with additional parameters by using Initialization Code attribute. Additional options are available here: https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Showdown-options.

Example of Initialization Code attribute:

function (options){
  options.literalMidWordUnderscores = false;
  options.noHeaderId = true;
  return options;
}

Put Markdown code into the static source of the region.

GitHub project https://github.com/mgoricki/apex-plugin-markdown-region.

Demo is available here