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process Markdown documents
Library
Markdown (libmarkdown, -lmarkdown)
Synopsis
#include <mkdio.h>
MMIOT
*mkd_in
(FILE *input, int flags);
MMIOT
*mkd_string
(char *string, int size, int flags);
int
markdown
(MMIOT *doc, FILE *output, int flags);
Description
These functions convert Markdown documents and strings into HTML. markdown
() processes an entire document, while mkd_text
() processes a single string.
To process a file, you pass a FILE* to mkd_in
(), and if it returns a nonzero value you pass that in to markdown
(), which then writes the converted document to the specified FILE*. If your input has already been written into a string (generated input or a file opened with mmap(2)) you can feed that string to mkd_string
() and pass its return value to markdown.
()
Markdown
() accepts the following flag values (or-ed together if needed) to restrict how it processes input:
- MKD_NOLINKS
Don't do link processing, block <a> tags.
- MKD_NOIMAGE
Don't do image processing, block <img>.
- MKD_NOPANTS
Don't run smartypants().
- MKD_NOHTML
Don't allow raw html through AT ALL
- MKD_STRICT
Disable superscript and relaxed emphasis.
- MKD_TAGTEXT
Process text to put inside an html tag (ID=, NAME=, <title>, &tc); no <em>, no <bold>, no html or [] expansion.
- MKD_NO_EXT
Don't allow pseudo-protocols.
- MKD_CDATA
Generate code for xml ![CDATA[...]].
- MKD_NOSUPERSCRIPT
Don't generate superscripts. Emphasis happens _everywhere_
- MKD_NOTABLES
Disallow tables.
- MKD_NOSTRIKETHROUGH
Forbid ~~strikethrough~~.
- MKD_TOC
Do table-of-contents processing.
- MKD_1_COMPAT
Compatibility with MarkdownTest_1.0
- MKD_AUTOLINK
Make http://foo.com into a link even without <> s.
- MKD_SAFELINK
Paranoid check for link protocol.
- MKD_NOHEADER
Don't process header blocks.
- MKD_TABSTOP
Expand tabs to 4 spaces.
- MKD_NODIVQUOTE
Forbid >%class% blocks.
- MKD_NOALPHALIST
Forbid alphabetic lists.
- MKD_NODLIST
Forbid definition lists.
- MKD_NODLDISCOUNT
Disable the discount definition list syntax style.
- MKD_DLEXTRA
Enable the extra definition list syntax style.
- MKD_EXTRA_FOOTNOTE
Enable markdown extra-style footnotes.
- MKD_NOSTYLE
Do not extract (omit) <style/> blocks from the output.
- MKD_FENCEDCODE
Allow fenced code blocks.
- MKD_IDANCHOR
Use id= anchors instead of <a name=/> for table-of-contents links.
- MKD_GITHUBTAGS
Allow underscore and dash in passed through element names.
- MKD_URLENCODEDANCHOR
Use html5 encoding for multibyte and nonalphanumeric characters rather than hex expansion in toc links.
Return Values
markdown
() returns 0 on success, 1 on failure. The mkd_in
() and mkd_string
() functions return a MMIOT* on success, null on failure.
See Also
markdown(1), mkd-callbacks(3), mkd-functions(3), mkd-line(3), markdown(7), mkd-extensions(7), mmap(2).
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Bugs
Error handling is minimal at best.
The MMIOT created by mkd_string
() is deleted by the markdown function.
Referenced By
discount-makepage(1), discount-mkd2html(1), discount-theme(1), markdown(1), markdown(7), mkd-callbacks(3), mkd-extensions(7), mkd-functions(3), mkd-line(3).
The man pages mkd_in(3) and mkd_string(3) are aliases of markdown(3).