Using Vale

What is Vale?

Vale is an open-source tool for linting content from a variety of different file types, including Markdown.

Using Vale with MDX

Once installed, you can use Vale with MDX files by adding a .vale.ini file to your Fern repo. please

[formats]
mdx = md

To use Vale’s HTML-style comments (<!-- comment -->) in an MDX file, wrap within an MDX-styled comment ({/* comment */}). For example:

• disable Vale: {/* <!-- vale off --> */}
• enable Vale: {/* <!-- vale on --> */}

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Vale will check this text.
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{/* <!-- vale off --> */}
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Vale won't check this text.
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{/* <!-- vale on --> */}
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Vale will start checking this text again.