Zolt Roadmap
This page outlines the planned features and future directions for the Zolt project. As Zolt aims to be the high-voltage successor to Markdown, we are focused on expanding its capabilities while maintaining its core principles of readability and power.
Upcoming Features
🎨 Custom Styles & Themes
We are working on a more robust way to define custom styles and themes. This will allow users to:
- Define global CSS-like styles within Zolt files.
- Create and share reusable theme packages.
- More granular control over element-specific attributes.
🧩 Custom Blocks
Expand the current block system ( :::info , :::tabs , etc.) to allow users to define their own custom blocks.
- Define custom rendering logic for specific block types.
- Support for third-party block plugins.
📄 PDF & Docx Builds
Provide native support for exporting Zolt documents directly to professional formats:
- High-quality PDF generation with customizable layouts.
- Microsoft Word (.docx) export for collaborative editing in traditional environments.
📥 Markdown Import
A painless migration path for existing Markdown users:
- Automated conversion from standard Markdown (CommonMark/GitHub Flavored Markdown) to Zolt syntax.
- Support for bulk conversion of entire documentation repositories.
🌐 Language Switch
Built-in support for multi-language documentation:
- Easy switching between different language versions of the same document.
- Localized system strings and metadata.
🔍 Search Engine
A powerful, client-side or server-side search engine specifically optimized for Zolt's structural intelligence:
- Fast full-text search across entire documentation sets.
- Respect for Zolt's semantic blocks and metadata.
🌓 Theme Switch
Native support for light and dark mode switching:
- Automatic detection of system preferences.
- A toggle UI element for manual overrides.
- Theme-aware styles for all built-in Zolt components.
Get Involved
Zolt is an open-source project, and we welcome contributions! If you're interested in helping us build any of these features, please check out our Contributing Guide .
You can also follow our progress on GitHub .
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