After using John Grubers original Markdown for a couple of years now, I finally ditched it. I kept wanting things that where not in the Perl version and after a while I lost the fun to code them myself. So I started looking around and I found some alternatives, like rdiscount, libupskirt and a lot more. But I also wanted syntax highlighting, without JavaScript if possible.
Digging around I found Markdown in Python in combination with Pygments.
I just tweaked a little Python script to run markdown from the command line
and configured blaze to use it.
This is the blaze config line
processor=md -x codehilite -x footnotes -x tables %in% > %out%
and the little python script.
#!/usr/bin/env python26
import logging
from markdown import COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL
from markdown import commandline
logger: logging.getLogger('MARKDOWN')
logger.setLevel(COMMAND_LINE_LOGGING_LEVEL)
logger.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
if __name__ == '__main__':
commandline.run()
To bad I don’t code more Python, people say it’s fun. Maybe something for the holidays.
At this moment this seems to be a keeper.
My patched version of MarkDown is still in the download section. Feel free to take a copy home!