Ignoring Liquid/Jekyll syntax

[dswitzer]

I'm working on integrate Flexmark with a Liquid template so my users can create custom HTML emails notifications. I do not want Flexmark to process the variables that will get injected into the Liquid template.

I thought I'd be able to just process the template with Flexmark first and then process the rendered results into my Liquid templating engine, but this causes some issues with statements like:

(a link)[{{ MyToken }})

Since the Liquid placeholder has spaces, Flexmark ends up ignoring the link and will not render it. In this specific case I could remove the spaces around the brackets, but that doesn't fix all uses cases.

Flexmark also ends encoding text inside the template. For example:

{% if Text == "here" %}

becomes:

{% if Text == "here" %}

Which changes the meaning and no longer works as expected.

So it would appear to resolve my problem, I need to get Flexmark to ignore the Liquid/Jekyll commands.

It would appear I could develop an extension to do this, but I'm wonder if there isn't something already there that would do this. Something that would allow me to define a start/end sequence to basically have Flexmark treat the text as a literal text.

I've seen the Flexmark Jekyll extension, but from my testing it appears trying to process blocks, not simply skipping them (unless I'm misunderstanding things, which is totally possible!)