I've just uploaded an implementation of markdown in C. It defines the syntax using a PEG grammar, so it should be easy to extend and modify. Right now it can produce output in either HTML or LaTeX, but it would be simple to add other output formats.
It's very fast: on my machine, it converts a 178K markdown file in 0.14 seconds (vs. 9.6 seconds for the latest Markdown.pl and 0.57 seconds for phpmarkdown). It passes all the tests in the Markdown 1.0.3 test suite, with one exception (an edge case where there is room for disagreement). It's on github at http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tree/master. If you use git, you can clone the repository: git clone git://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown.git Otherwise, download a tarball: http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tarball/master Once you're in the peg-markdown directory, you can compile the program by typing 'make'. For convenience, all required dependencies are included, including Ian Piumarta's excellent peg/leg parser generator. If you just want to have a look at the formal grammar, it's here: http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tree/master/markdown.leg#L675 John _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
