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Allow configuration of Flexmark or provide better defaults

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the linked Flexmark documentation section and trace the default Markdown formatter configuration in the Gradle plugin. Determine whether line-length configuration or a better bounded default is intended, then verify that the documentation accurately describes the supported behavior and that Markdown output no longer permits unlimited lines.

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Description

enhancement

The documentation says configuration options aren't available but the default configuration sets no limit for line length which kind of makes formatting markdown useless because each developer can make lines as long as they want.

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