add markdown
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
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+url: https://asterixdb.incubator.apache.org/
+
+name: "Apache AsterixDB"
+
+STABLE_VERSION: 0.8.6
+UNSTABLE_VERSION: 0.8.7-SNAPSHOT
+STABLE_DOWNLOAD_URL: "http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/download/0.8.6/asterix-installer-0.8.6-binary-assembly.zip"
+UNSTABLE_DOWNLOAD_URL: "https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-test-full/lastStableBuild/org.apache.asterix$asterix-installer/artifact/org.apache.asterix/asterix-installer/0.8.7-SNAPSHOT/asterix-installer-0.8.7-SNAPSHOT-binary-assembly.zip"
+STABLE_YARN_URL: ""
+UNSTABLE_YARN_URL: "https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-test-full/lastStableBuild/org.apache.asterix$asterix-yarn/artifact/org.apache.asterix/asterix-yarn/0.8.7-SNAPSHOT/asterix-yarn-0.8.7-SNAPSHOT-binary-assembly.zip"
+DOCS_BASE_URL: "http://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/documentation"
+UNSTABLE_DOCS_BASE_URL: "https://asterix-jenkins.ics.uci.edu/job/asterix-test-full/site/asterix-doc"
+ICS_DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL: "https://asterixdb.ics.uci.edu/download"
+
+# Build settings
+defaults:
+ -
+ scope:
+ path: ""
+ values:
+ layout: plain
+
+markdown: kramdown
+highlighter: pygments
+
+kramdown:
+ toc_levels: 1..3
+ input: GFM
+ hard_wrap: false
+
+redcarpet:
+ extensions: ["no_intra_emphasis", "fenced_code_blocks", "autolink",
+ "tables", "with_toc_data", "strikethrough", "superscript",
+ "lax_spacing"]
+