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- data/BUILDING +34 -0
- data/COPYING +52 -0
- data/README.markdown +71 -0
- data/Rakefile +182 -0
- data/bin/rdiscount +19 -0
- data/ext/Csio.c +61 -0
- data/ext/amalloc.h +29 -0
- data/ext/basename.c +43 -0
- data/ext/config.h +23 -0
- data/ext/css.c +85 -0
- data/ext/cstring.h +77 -0
- data/ext/docheader.c +49 -0
- data/ext/dumptree.c +152 -0
- data/ext/emmatch.c +188 -0
- data/ext/extconf.rb +18 -0
- data/ext/generate.c +1642 -0
- data/ext/html5.c +24 -0
- data/ext/markdown.c +1215 -0
- data/ext/markdown.h +169 -0
- data/ext/mkdio.c +344 -0
- data/ext/mkdio.h +100 -0
- data/ext/rdiscount.c +106 -0
- data/ext/resource.c +157 -0
- data/ext/tags.c +123 -0
- data/ext/tags.h +19 -0
- data/ext/toc.c +101 -0
- data/ext/xml.c +82 -0
- data/lib/markdown.rb +1 -0
- data/lib/rdiscount.rb +87 -0
- data/man/markdown.7 +1020 -0
- data/man/rdiscount.1 +119 -0
- data/man/rdiscount.1.ronn +98 -0
- data/rdiscount-dsc.gemspec +57 -0
- data/test/benchmark.rb +56 -0
- data/test/benchmark.txt +306 -0
- data/test/markdown_test.rb +159 -0
- data/test/rdiscount_test.rb +111 -0
- metadata +88 -0
data/ext/tags.h
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/* block-level tags for passing html blocks through the blender
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#ifndef _TAGS_D
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#define _TAGS_D
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struct kw {
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char *id;
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int size;
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int selfclose;
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} ;
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struct kw* mkd_search_tags(char *, int);
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void mkd_prepare_tags();
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void mkd_deallocate_tags();
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void mkd_sort_tags();
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void mkd_define_tag(char *, int);
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#endif
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data/ext/toc.c
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/*
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* toc -- spit out a table of contents based on header blocks
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2008 Jjgod Jiang, David L Parsons.
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* The redistribution terms are provided in the COPYRIGHT file that must
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* be distributed with this source code.
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*/
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#include "config.h"
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <stdlib.h>
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#include <ctype.h>
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#include "cstring.h"
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#include "markdown.h"
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#include "amalloc.h"
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/* write an header index
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*/
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int
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mkd_toc(Document *p, char **doc)
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{
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Paragraph *tp, *srcp;
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int last_hnumber = 0;
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Cstring res;
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int size;
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if ( !(doc && p && p->ctx) ) return -1;
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*doc = 0;
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if ( ! (p->ctx->flags & MKD_TOC) ) return 0;
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CREATE(res);
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RESERVE(res, 100);
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for ( tp = p->code; tp ; tp = tp->next ) {
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if ( tp->typ == SOURCE ) {
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for ( srcp = tp->down; srcp; srcp = srcp->next ) {
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if ( srcp->typ == HDR && srcp->text ) {
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if ( last_hnumber >= srcp->hnumber ) {
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while ( last_hnumber > srcp->hnumber ) {
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Csprintf(&res, "%*s</ul></li>\n", last_hnumber-1,"");
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--last_hnumber;
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}
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}
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while ( srcp->hnumber > last_hnumber ) {
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Csprintf(&res, "%*s%s<ul>\n", last_hnumber, "",
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last_hnumber ? "<li>" : "");
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++last_hnumber;
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}
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Csprintf(&res, "%*s<li><a href=\"#", srcp->hnumber, "");
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mkd_string_to_anchor(T(srcp->text->text),
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S(srcp->text->text), Csputc, &res,1);
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Csprintf(&res, "\">");
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mkd_string_to_anchor(T(srcp->text->text),
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S(srcp->text->text), Csputc, &res,0);
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Csprintf(&res, "</a>");
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Csprintf(&res, "</li>\n");
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}
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}
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}
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}
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while ( last_hnumber > 0 ) {
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--last_hnumber;
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Csprintf(&res, last_hnumber ? "%*s</ul></li>\n" : "%*s</ul>\n", last_hnumber, "");
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}
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if ( (size = S(res)) > 0 ) {
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EXPAND(res) = 0;
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/* HACK ALERT! HACK ALERT! HACK ALERT! */
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*doc = T(res); /* we know that a T(Cstring) is a character pointer
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* so we can simply pick it up and carry it away,
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* leaving the husk of the Ctring on the stack
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* END HACK ALERT
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*/
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}
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else
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DELETE(res);
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return size;
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}
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/* write an header index
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*/
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int
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mkd_generatetoc(Document *p, FILE *out)
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{
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char *buf = 0;
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int sz = mkd_toc(p, &buf);
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int ret = EOF;
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if ( sz > 0 )
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}
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/* markdown: a C implementation of John Gruber's Markdown markup language.
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* Copyright (C) 2007 David L Parsons.
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* The redistribution terms are provided in the COPYRIGHT file that must
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* be distributed with this source code.
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*/
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <string.h>
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#include <stdarg.h>
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#include <stdlib.h>
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#include <time.h>
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#include <ctype.h>
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#include "config.h"
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#include "cstring.h"
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#include "markdown.h"
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#include "amalloc.h"
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/* return the xml version of a character
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*/
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static char *
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mkd_xmlchar(unsigned char c)
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{
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switch (c) {
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case '<': return "<";
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case '>': return ">";
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case '&': return "&";
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case '"': return """;
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case '\'': return "'";
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default: if ( isascii(c) || (c & 0x80) )
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return 0;
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return "";
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}
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}
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/* write output in XML format
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*/
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int
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mkd_generatexml(char *p, int size, FILE *out)
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{
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unsigned char c;
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char *entity;
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while ( size-- > 0 ) {
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c = *p++;
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if ( entity = mkd_xmlchar(c) )
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fputs(entity, out);
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else
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fputc(c, out);
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}
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}
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/* build a xml'ed version of a string
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char *entity;
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CREATE(f);
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RESERVE(f, 100);
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c = *p++;
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Csputc(c, &f);
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}
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/* HACK ALERT! HACK ALERT! HACK ALERT! */
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*res = T(f); /* we know that a T(Cstring) is a character pointer */
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return S(f); /* leaving the husk of the Ctring on the stack */
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/* END HACK ALERT */
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}
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data/lib/markdown.rb
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require 'rdiscount'
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data/lib/rdiscount.rb
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# Discount is an implementation of John Gruber's Markdown markup
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# language in C. It implements all of the language as described in
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# {Markdown Syntax}[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax]
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# and passes the Markdown 1.0 test suite. The RDiscount extension makes
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# the Discount processor available via a Ruby C Extension library.
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#
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# == Usage
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#
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# RDiscount implements the basic protocol popularized by RedCloth and adopted
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# by BlueCloth:
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# require 'rdiscount'
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# markdown = RDiscount.new("Hello World!")
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# puts markdown.to_html
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#
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# == Replacing BlueCloth
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#
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# Inject RDiscount into your BlueCloth-using code by replacing your bluecloth
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# require statements with the following:
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# begin
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# require 'rdiscount'
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# BlueCloth = RDiscount
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# rescue LoadError
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# require 'bluecloth'
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# end
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#
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class RDiscount
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VERSION = '1.6.8'
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# Original Markdown formatted text.
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attr_reader :text
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# Integer containing bit flags for the underlying Discount library.
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attr_accessor :flags
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# Do not output <tt><style></tt> tags included in the source text.
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attr_accessor :filter_styles
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# RedCloth compatible line folding -- not used for Markdown but
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# included for compatibility.
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attr_accessor :fold_lines
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# Create a RDiscount Markdown processor. The +text+ argument should be a
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# string containing Markdown text. Additional arguments may be supplied to
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# set various processing options:
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#
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# * <tt>:filter_styles</tt> - Do not output <tt><style></tt> tags.
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# * <tt>:fold_lines</tt> - RedCloth compatible line folding (not used).
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOLINKS</tt> - Don't do link processing, block <a> tags
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOIMAGE</tt> - Don't do image processing, block <img>
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOPANTS</tt> - Don't run smartypants()
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOHTML</tt> - Don't allow raw html through AT ALL
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# * <tt>:MKD_STRICT</tt> - Disable SUPERSCRIPT, RELAXED_EMPHASIS
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# * <tt>:MKD_TAGTEXT</tt> - Process text inside an html tag; no <em>, no <bold>, no html or [] expansion
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# * <tt>:MKD_NO_EXT</tt> - Don't allow pseudo-protocols
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# * <tt>:MKD_CDATA</tt> - Generate code for xml ![CDATA[...]]
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOSUPERSCRIPT</tt> - No A^B
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# * <tt>:MKD_NORELAXED</tt> - Emphasis happens everywhere
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOTABLES</tt> - Don't process PHP Markdown Extra tables.
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOSTRIKETHROUGH</tt> - Forbid ~~strikethrough~~
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# * <tt>:MKD_TOC</tt> - Do table-of-contents processing
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# * <tt>:MKD_1_COMPAT</tt> - Compatability with MarkdownTest_1.0
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# * <tt>:MKD_AUTOLINK</tt> - Make http://foo.com a link even without <>s
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# * <tt>:MKD_SAFELINK</tt> - Paranoid check for link protocol
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOHEADER</tt> - Don't process document headers
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# * <tt>:MKD_TABSTOP</tt> - Expand tabs to 4 spaces
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# * <tt>:MKD_NODIVQUOTE</tt> - Forbid >%class% blocks
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# * <tt>:MKD_NOALPHALIST</tt> - Forbid alphabetic lists
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# * <tt>:MKD_NODLIST</tt> - Forbid definition lists
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#
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def initialize(text, *extensions)
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@text = text
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@flags = 0
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extensions.each do |ext|
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writer = "#{ext}="
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end
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end
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data/man/markdown.7
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.Dd Dec 22, 2007
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.Dt MARKDOWN 7
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.Os MASTODON
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm Markdown
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.Nd The Markdown text formatting syntax
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Ss Philosophy
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.Nm Markdown
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is intended to be as easy-to-read and easy-to-write as is feasible.
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.Pp
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Readability, however, is emphasized above all else. A Markdown-formatted
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document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking
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like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While
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Markdown's syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML
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filters -- including
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.Em Setext ,
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.Em atx ,
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.Em Textile ,
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.Em reStructuredText ,
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.Em Grutatext ,
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and
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.Em EtText
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\-\- the single biggest source of
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inspiration for
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Markdown's
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syntax is the format of plain text email.
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.Pp
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To this end, Markdown's syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation
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characters, which punctuation characters have been carefully chosen so
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as to look like what they mean. E.g., asterisks around a word actually
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look like *emphasis*. Markdown lists look like, well, lists. Even
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blockquotes look like quoted passages of text, assuming you've ever
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used email.
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Markdown's syntax is intended for one purpose: to be used as a
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format for
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.Em writing
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for the web.
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.Nm
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is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its
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syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of
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HTML tags. The idea is
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.Em not
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to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to
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edit prose. HTML is a
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.Em publishing
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format; Markdown is a
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.Em not
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case sensitive. E.g. these two
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I get 10 times more traffic from [Google] [1] than from
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[MSN](http://search.msn.com/ "MSN Search").
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source is vastly more readable. Compare the above examples: using
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closely resembles the final output, as rendered in a browser. By
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you can add links without interrupting the narrative flow of your
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.Pp
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un*fucking*believable
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.Ed
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normal paragraph. For example:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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Use the `printf()` function.
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.Ed
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.Pp
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will produce:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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<p>Use the <code>printf()</code> function.</p>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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817
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To include a literal backtick character within a code span, you can use
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multiple backticks as the opening and closing delimiters:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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``There is a literal backtick (`) here.``
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.Ed
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.Pp
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which will produce this:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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<p><code>There is a literal backtick (`) here.</code></p>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The backtick delimiters surrounding a code span may include spaces --
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one after the opening, one before the closing. This allows you to place
|
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literal backtick characters at the beginning or end of a code span:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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A single backtick in a code span: `` ` ``
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+
|
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A backtick-delimited string in a code span: `` `foo` ``
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835
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+
.Ed
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.Pp
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will produce:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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<p>A single backtick in a code span: <code>`</code></p>
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+
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<p>A backtick-delimited string in a code span: <code>`foo`</code></p>
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.Ed
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843
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+
.Pp
|
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With a code span, ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML
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entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML
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tags. Markdown will turn this:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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Please don't use any `<blink>` tags.
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.Ed
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.Pp
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+
into:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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<p>Please don't use any <code><blink></code> tags.</p>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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You can write this:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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`—` is the decimal-encoded equivalent of `—`.
|
859
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+
.Ed
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+
.Pp
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861
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to produce:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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863
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<p><code>&#8212;</code> is the decimal-encoded
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equivalent of <code>&mdash;</code>.</p>
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+
.Ed
|
866
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+
.Pp
|
867
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+
.Ss Images
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868
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+
Admittedly, it's fairly difficult to devise a
|
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+
.Qq natural
|
870
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+
syntax for placing images into a plain text document format.
|
871
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+
.Pp
|
872
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Markdown uses an image syntax that is intended to resemble the syntax
|
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for links, allowing for two styles:
|
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+
.Em inline
|
875
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+
and
|
876
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+
.Em reference .
|
877
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.Pp
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Inline image syntax looks like this:
|
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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+
![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)
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+
|
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![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg =Optional size "Optional title")
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+
.Ed
|
884
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.Pp
|
885
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+
That is:
|
886
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+
.Bl -bullet
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+
.It
|
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An exclamation mark: `!`;
|
889
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+
.It
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890
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+
followed by a set of square brackets, containing the `alt`
|
891
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attribute text for the image;
|
892
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+
.It
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893
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+
followed by a set of parentheses, containing the URL or path to
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+
the image, an optional `size` attribute (in
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895
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+
.Ar width Li c Ar height
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896
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+
format) prefixed with a `=`,
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897
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+
and an optional `title` attribute enclosed in double
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+
or single quotes.
|
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+
.El
|
900
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+
.Pp
|
901
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Reference-style image syntax looks like this:
|
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
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+
![Alt text][id]
|
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+
.Ed
|
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|
+
.Pp
|
906
|
+
Where
|
907
|
+
.Qq id
|
908
|
+
is the name of a defined image reference. Image references
|
909
|
+
are defined using syntax identical to link references:
|
910
|
+
.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
911
|
+
[id]: url/to/image =Optional size "Optional title attribute"
|
912
|
+
.Ed
|
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+
.Pp
|
914
|
+
.Sh Miscellaneous
|
915
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+
.Ss Automatic Links
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|
+
.Nm
|
917
|
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supports a shortcut style for creating
|
918
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+
.Qq automatic
|
919
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+
links for URLs and email addresses: simply surround the URL or email
|
920
|
+
address with angle brackets. What this means is that if you want to
|
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+
show the actual text of a URL or email address, and also have it be
|
922
|
+
a clickable link, you can do this:
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+
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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924
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+
<http://example.com/>
|
925
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+
.Ed
|
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|
+
.Pp
|
927
|
+
.Nm
|
928
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+
will turn this into:
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+
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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+
<a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>
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931
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+
.Ed
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.Pp
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Automatic links for email addresses work similarly, except that
|
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Markdown will also perform a bit of randomized decimal and hex
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+
entity-encoding to help obscure your address from address-harvesting
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spambots. For example, Markdown will turn this:
|
937
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+
.Bd -literal -offset indent
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<address@example.com>
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.Ed
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.Pp
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+
into something like this:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
943
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+
<a href="mailto:addre
|
944
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+
ss@example.co
|
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|
+
m">address@exa
|
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+
mple.com</a>
|
947
|
+
.Ed
|
948
|
+
.Pp
|
949
|
+
which will render in a browser as a clickable link to
|
950
|
+
.Qq address@example.com .
|
951
|
+
.Pp
|
952
|
+
(This sort of entity-encoding trick will indeed fool many, if not
|
953
|
+
most, address-harvesting bots, but it definitely won't fool all of
|
954
|
+
them. It's better than nothing, but an address published in this way
|
955
|
+
will probably eventually start receiving spam.)
|
956
|
+
.Ss Backslash Escapes
|
957
|
+
.Nm
|
958
|
+
allows you to use backslash escapes to generate literal
|
959
|
+
characters which would otherwise have special meaning in Markdown's
|
960
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+
formatting syntax. For example, if you wanted to surround a word with
|
961
|
+
literal asterisks (instead of an HTML `<em>` tag), you add backslashes
|
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|
+
before the asterisks, like this:
|
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
|
964
|
+
\\*literal asterisks\\*
|
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+
.Ed
|
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|
+
.Pp
|
967
|
+
.Nm
|
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+
provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
|
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.Bl -tag -compact
|
970
|
+
.It \&\
|
971
|
+
backslash
|
972
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.It \`
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973
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+
backtick
|
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.It *
|
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+
asterisk
|
976
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+
.It _
|
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+
underscore
|
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+
.It \{\}
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+
curly braces
|
980
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+
.It []
|
981
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+
square brackets
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+
.It ()
|
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+
parentheses
|
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+
.It #
|
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hash mark
|
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+
.It +
|
987
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+
plus sign
|
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+
.It \-
|
989
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+
minus sign (hyphen)
|
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.It \.
|
991
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+
dot
|
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.It \!
|
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+
exclamation mark
|
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+
.El
|
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+
.Sh BUGS
|
996
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+
.Nm
|
997
|
+
assumes that tabs are set to 4 spaces.
|
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+
.Sh AUTHOR
|
999
|
+
John Gruber
|
1000
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+
.%T http://daringfireball.net/
|
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+
.Sh SEE ALSO
|
1002
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+
.Xr markdown 1 ,
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.Xr markdown 3 ,
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.Xr mkd-callbacks 3 ,
|
1005
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+
.Xr mkd-functions 3 ,
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+
.Xr mkd-extensions 7 .
|
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.Pp
|
1008
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+
.%T http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown
|
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.br
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.%T http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html
|
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+
.br
|
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|
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.%T http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/
|
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.br
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.%T http://textism.com/tools/textile/
|
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|
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.br
|
1016
|
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.%T http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
|
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|
+
.br
|
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+
.%T http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html
|
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|
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.br
|
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.%T http://ettext.taint.org/doc/
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