NAME

       markdown — text to html conversion tool

SYNOPSIS

       markdown  [-d]  [-T]  [-V] [-b url-base] [-C prefix] [-F bitmap] [-f flags] [-n] [-o file] [-S] [-s text]
                [-t text] [textfile]

DESCRIPTION

       The markdown utility reads the markdown(7)-formatted textfile (or stdin if not specified,)  compiles  it,
       and writes the html output to stdout.

       The options are as follows:

       -b url-base
                Links in source beginning with / will be prefixed with url-base in the output.

       -C       When  processing  markdown extra-style footnotes, use the given prefix instead of the default of
                fn.

       -d       Instead of writing the html file, dump a parse tree to stdout.

       -f flags
                Set or clear various translation flags.   The flags are  in  a  comma-delimited  list,  with  an
                optional + (enable), - (disable), or no (disable) lprefix on each flag.

                links           Allow links.

                image           Allow images.

                smarty          Enable smartypants.

                pants           Enable smartypants.

                html            Allow raw html.

                strict          Disable superscript, strikethrough & relaxed emphasis.

                ext             Enable pseudo-protocols.

                cdata           Generate code for xml ![CDATA[...]].

                superscript     Enable superscript processing.

                emphasis        Emphasis happens everywhere.

                tables          Don't process PHP Markdown Extra tables.

                del             Enable ~~strikethrough~~.

                strikethrough   Enable ~~strikethrough~~.

                toc             Enable table-of-contents processing.

                1.0             Compatibility with MarkdownTest_1.0

                autolink        Make http://foo.com a link even without <>.

                safelink        Paranoid check for link protocol.

                header          Process pandoc-style header blocks.

                tabstop         Expand tabs to 4 spaces.

                divquote        Allow >%class% blocks.

                alphalist       Allow alphabetic lists.

                definitionlist  Allow  definition  lists at all (default). Use dldiscount and dlextra to control
                                which syntaxes are respected.

                dldiscount      Enable discount-style definition lists (default).

                dlextra         Enable extra-style definition lists (not default). Both styles  may  be  enabled
                                simultaneously.

                footnote        Allow markdown extra-style footnotes.

                style           Extract <style> blocks from the output.

                fencedcode      Allow fenced code blocks (not default).

                idanchor        Use id= anchors for table-of-contents links instead of <a name=/> (not default).

                githubtags      Allow underscore and dash in passed through element names (not default).

                urlencodedanchor
                                Use  url-encoded  chars for multibyte and nonalphanumeric chars rather than dots
                                in toc links.

                As an example, the option -f nolinks,smarty tells markdown to not  allow  <a  tags,  and  to  do
                smarty pants processing.

       -F bitmap
                Set  translation  flags.   Bitmap is a bit map of the various configuration options described in
                markdown(3) (the flag values are defined in mkdio.h)

       -n       Don't write generated html.

       -o file  Write the generated html to file.

       -S       output <style> blocks.

       -V       Show the version# and compile-time configuration data.

                If the version includes the  string  DEBUG,  markdown  was  configured  with  memory  allocation
                debugging.

                If the version includes the string TAB, markdown was configured to use the specified tabstop.

       -VV      Show the version#, the compile-time configuration, and the run-time configuration.

       -t text  Use mkd_text(3) to format text instead of processing stdin with the markdown(3) function.

       -T       If run with the table-of-content flag on, dump the table of contents before the formatted text.

       -s text  Use the markdown(3) function to format text.

RETURN VALUES

       The markdown utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

       markdown(3), markdown(7), mkd-extensions(7).

AUTHOR

       David Parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)

MASTODON                                         January 7, 2008                                     MARKDOWN(1)