MARKDOWN(1) General Commands Manual MARKDOWN(1)

markdown — text to html conversion tool

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

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:

url-base
Links in source beginning with / will be prefixed with url-base in the output.
When processing markdown extra-style footnotes, use the given prefix instead of the default of fn.
Instead of writing the html file, dump a parse tree to stdout.
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 .
superscript
Enable superscript processing.
emphasis
Emphasis happens .
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 and 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.

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)
Don't write generated html.
file
Write the generated html to file.
output <style> blocks.
Show the version# and compile-time configuration data.

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

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

Show the version#, the compile-time configuration, and the run-time configuration.
text
Use mkd_text(3) to format text instead of processing stdin with the markdown(3) function.
If run with the table-of-content flag on, dump the table of contents before the formatted text.
text
Use the markdown(3) function to format text.
Set the table-of-content flag, then dump the table of contents before the formatted text (a shorthand for --T --toc )

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

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

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

January 7, 2008 MASTODON