NAME

MultiMarkdown.pl - Convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML

DESCRIPTION

This program is distributed as part of Perl's Text::MultiMarkdown module, illustrating sample usage.

MultiMarkdown.pl 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