ctx-journal-normalize

To fix broken markdown rendering in a journal site, normalize the source files to repair fence nesting, metadata formatting, and nested lists. This content-preserving transformation restores consistent presentation when site generation fails.

Nested lists and broken fences impede markdown rendering because they disrupt structural parsing, causing site generation to display entries incorrectly. Normalizing markdown restructures these elements for consistent presentation across projects.

Yes, you can run markdown normalization on journal source files without losing content. The process ensures content-preserving transformation with safe backups, maintaining source files safely prior to site generation.

The best way to clean and prepare journal markdown for site generation is to run an idempotent normalization process. This safely handles source files, repairs misformatted metadata, and creates backups before rendering.

Idempotent markdown normalization is safe to run multiple times on journal entries because repeated operations produce the same output without accumulating changes. It safely handles source files with backups before site generation.