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Markdown.pl: Convert Markdown syntax to (X)HTML
NAME
Markdown.pl - Convert Markdown syntax to (X)HTML
DESCRIPTION
This program is distributed as part of Perl's Text::Markdown module, illustrating sample usage.Markdown can be invoked on any file containing Markdown-syntax, and will produce the corresponding (X)HTML on STDOUT:
$ cat file.txt This is a *test*. Absolutely _nothing_ to see here. _Just a **test**_! * test * Yup, test. $ Markdown.pl file.txt <p>This is a <em>test</em>.</p> <p>Absolutely <em>nothing</em> to see here. <em>Just a <strong>test</strong></em>!</p> <ul> <li>test</li> <li>Yup, test.</li> </ul>
If no file is specified, it will expect its input from STDIN:
$ echo "A **simple** test" | markdown <p>A <strong>simple</strong> test</p>
OPTIONS
- version
- Shows the full information for this version
- shortversion
- Shows only the version number
- html4tags
-
Produce HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML - XHTML requires elements
that do not wrap a block (i.e. the "hr" tag) to state they will not
be closed, by closing with "/>". HTML 4-style will plainly output
the tag as it comes:
$ echo '---' | markdown <hr /> $ echo '---' | markdown --html4tags <hr>
- help
- Shows this documentation
AUTHOR
Copyright 2004 John GruberCopyright 2008 Tomas Doran
The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf [at] debian.org> for its use in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere.
For full licensing information, please refer to Text::Markdown.pm's full documentation.