Support rendering of indented markdown

[MarcSkovMadsen]

I would really like to be able to easily use Markdown in Panel because it's so easy to write content with text, images and code and get a beautiful looking pages back.

But in Panel there are some pains to using Markdown. One pain is that indentation of markdown text is not supported.

When I write a longer markdown text in a python file in my editor (VS Code), then the default "python indentation" is not handled by pn.pane.Markdown. It's easist to understand from the code and images below.

I would like a solution where indented text is rendered nicely. For example by removing leading spaces/ tabs from the text.

A solution like this would lower the friction to using Panel.

Streamlit does this.

The code is here

import panel as pn


def main():
    text_error = """
    This is not formatted correctly by Markdown due to the indentation!"""
    text_ok = """
This is formatted correctly by Markdown!
"""
    app = pn.Column(
        pn.pane.Markdown(text_error),
        pn.pane.HTML("<hr>", sizing_mode="stretch_width"),
        pn.pane.Markdown(text_ok),
    )
    app.servable()


main()

[MarcSkovMadsen]

I can confirm this works with the latest release candidate for Panel 0.8.