MARKDOWN

NAME

markdown – convert text to HTML  

SYNOPSIS

markdown [ –html4tags ] [ –version ] [ -shortversion ] [ file … ]

use Markdown; $html=Markdown::Markdown($text);  

DESCRIPTION

Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format into HTML. Markdown’s text format is most similar to that of plain text email, and supports features such as headers, *emphasis*, code blocks, blockquotes, and links.

Markdown’s syntax is designed not as a generic markup language, but specifically to serve as a front-end to (X)HTML. You can use span-level HTML tags anywhere in a Markdown document, and you can use block level HTML tags (like <div> and <table> as well).

For more information about Markdown’s syntax, see:

    http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

 

OPTIONS

Use “–” to end switch parsing. For example, to open a file named “-z”, use:

        markdown — -z

–html4tags

Use HTML 4 style for empty element tags, e.g.:

    <br>

instead of Markdown’s default XHTML style tags, e.g.:

    <br />

-v, –version

Display Markdown’s version number and copyright information.

-s, –shortversion

Display the short-form version number.

 

BUGS

To file bug reports or feature requests (other than topics listed in the Caveats section above) please send email to:

    [email protected]

Please include with your report: (1) the example input; (2) the output you expected; (3) the output Markdown actually produced.