NAME
multimarkdown - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML
DESCRIPTION
This program is distributed as part of Perl’s Text::MultiMarkdown
module, illustrating sample usage.
multimarkdown can be invoked on any file containing MultiMarkdown-
syntax, and will produce the corresponding (X)HTML on STDOUT:
$ cat file.txt
[MultiMarkdown][] *extends* the very well-known [Markdown][] syntax.
[MultiMarkdown]: http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
$ multimarkdown file.txt
<p><a href="http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown">MultiMarkdown</a> <em>extends</em> the very well-known <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a> syntax.</p>
If no file is specified, it will expect its input from STDIN:
$ echo "A **simple** test" | multimarkdown
<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 '---' | multimarkdown
<hr />
$ echo '---' | multimarkdown --html4tags
<hr>
help
Shows this documentation
AUTHOR
Copyright 2004 John Gruber
Copyright 2006 Fletcher Penny
Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran
The manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> for its use
in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere.
For full licensing information, please refer to
Text::MultiMarkdown.pm’s full documentation.
SEE ALSO
Text::MultiMarkdown, <http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown>