reorder events

[Hvitgar]

Is there any way to reorder the events (like it is done for definitions in compile) in order to work with custom definitions?

[wooorm]

Sounds like somewhat an XY problem.
Footnotes also work: https://github.com/micromark/micromark-extension-footnote

[wooorm]

I wrote a lot about why not to create syntax extensions: https://github.com/micromark/micromark#extending-markdown

Why not use directives?

[Hvitgar]

I took a look at directives, but I don't see how they solve my problem. Can I create reusable content with directives? In my use case, tooltips are used to explain terminology in articles, where the same term can occur often and I would like to avoid rewriting/copying the explanation over for each occurence, thats why I was looking for something like

[url]

[url]: example.com

where url can also be reused in the text.

[wooorm]

Directives can do basically anything.

I’d suggest:

Lorem ipsum.:tip{#identifier} Or :tip[a tip around content]{#identifier}

:::description{#identifier}
# Description for thing

All the markdown content you want in here.
:::

[Hvitgar]

Oh wow, thanks a lot for the examples, I'll take a look at it again.

I'm working with the unified stack for only two weeks now and I am impressed by the flexibility and overall quality of all the projects. Thanks for putting so much work in it =)

[ChristianMurphy]

Reference links already offer that syntax today https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/#reference-link
maybe use remark (which builds on micromark) to render linkReference nodes with your custom tooltip? https://astexplorer.net/#/gist/d5d88539bc0bf6b146e31dc08a7a2551/2347487753c4573fc58846c3a16c688c7759e9f9

or use a pair of directives.

:tooltip[something]

:tooltipDefinition[something]{content="description"}