<html><body><h1>Markmin markup language</h1><h2>About</h2><p>This is a new markup language that we call markmin designed to produce high quality scientific papers and books and also put them online. We provide serializers for html, latex and pdf. It is implemented in the <code class="">markmin2html</code> function in the <code class="">markmin2html.py</code>.</p><p>Example of usage:</p><pre><code class="">>>> m = "Hello **world** [[link http://web2py.com]]"
>>> from markmin2html import markmin2html
>>> print markmin2html(m)
>>> from markmin2latex import markmin2latex
>>> print markmin2latex(m)
>>> from markmin2pdf import markmin2pdf # requires pdflatex
>>> print markmin2pdf(m)</code></pre><h2>Why?</h2><p>We wanted a markup language with the following requirements:</p><ul><li>less than 100 lines of functional code</li><li>easy to read</li><li>secure</li><li>support table, ul, ol, code</li><li>support html5 video and audio elements (html serialization only)</li><li>can align images and resize them</li><li>can specify class for tables and code elements</li><li>can add anchors</li><li>does not use _ for markup (since it creates odd behavior)</li><li>automatically links urls</li><li>fast</li><li>easy to extend</li><li>supports latex and pdf including references</li><li>allows to describe the markup in the markup (this document is generated from markmin syntax)</li></ul><p>(results depend on text but in average for text ~100K markmin is 30% faster than markdown, for text ~10K it is 10x faster)</p><p>The <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/web2py-%283rd-edition%29/12822827">web2py book</a> published by lulu, for example, was entirely generated with markmin2pdf from the online <a href="http://www.web2py.com/book">web2py wiki</a></p><h2>Download</h2><ul><li>http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/gluon/contrib/markmin/markmin2html.py</li><li>http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/gluon/contrib/markmin/markmin2latex.py</li><li>http://web2py.googlecode.com/hg/gluon/contrib/markmin/markmin2pdf.py</li></ul><p>markmin2html.py and markmin2latex.py are single files and have no web2py dependence. Their license is BSD.</p><h2>Examples</h2><h3>Bold, italic, code and links</h3><table class=""><tr><td><b>SOURCE</b> </td><td><b>OUTPUT</b></td></tr><tr><td><code class=""># title</code> </td><td><b>title</b></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">## section</code> </td><td><b>section</b></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">### subsection</code> </td><td><b>subsection</b></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">**bold**</code> </td><td><b>bold</b></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">''italic''</code> </td><td><i>italic</i></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">``verbatim``</code> </td><td><code class="">verbatim</code></td></tr><tr><td><code class="">http://google.com</code> </td><td>http://google.com</td></tr><tr><td><code class="">[[click me #myanchor]]</code></td><td><a href="#myanchor">click me</a></td></tr></table>
<h3>More on links</h3><p>The format is always <code class="">[[title link]]</code>. Notice you can nest bold, italic and code inside the link title.</p><h3>Anchors <span id="myanchor"><span></h3><p>You can place an anchor anywhere in the text using the syntax <code class="">[[name]]</code> where <i>name</i> is the name of the anchor.
You can then link the anchor with <a href="#myanchor">link</a>, i.e. <code class="">[[link #myanchor]]</code>.</p><h3>Images</h3><p><img src="http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_logo.png" alt="some image" align="right" width="200px" />
This paragraph has an image aligned to the right with a width of 200px. Its is placed using the code</p><p><code class="">[[some image http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_logo.png right 200px]]</code>.</p><h3>Unordered Lists</h3><pre><code class="">- Dog
- Cat
- Mouse</code></pre><p>is rendered as</p><ul><li>Dog</li><li>Cat</li><li>Mouse</li></ul><p>Two new lines between items break the list in two lists.</p><h3>Ordered Lists</h3><pre><code class="">+ Dog
+ Cat
+ Mouse</code></pre><p>is rendered as</p><ol><li>Dog</li><li>Cat</li><li>Mouse</li></ol><h3>Tables</h3><p>Something like this
<pre><code class="">---------
**A** | **B** | **C**
0 | 0 | X
0 | X | 0
X | 0 | 0
-----:abc</code></pre>
is a table and is rendered as
<table class="abc"><tr><td><b>A</b></td><td><b>B</b></td><td><b>C</b></td></tr><tr><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>X</td></tr><tr><td>0</td><td>X</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>X</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr></table>Four or more dashes delimit the table and | separates the columns.
The <code class="">:abc</code> at the end sets the class for the table and it is optional.</p><h3>Blockquote</h3><p>A table with a single cell is rendered as a blockquote:</p><blockquote class="">Hello world</blockquote>
<h3>Code, <code class=""><code></code>, escaping and extra stuff</h3><pre><code class="python">def test():
return "this is Python code"</code></pre><p>Optionally a ` inside a <code class="">``...``</code> block can be inserted escaped with !`!.
The <code class="">:python</code> after the markup is also optional. If present, by default, it is used to set the class of the <code> block.
The behavior can be overridden by passing an argument <code class="">extra</code> to the <code class="">render</code> function. For example:</p><pre><code class="python">>>> markmin2html("``aaa``:custom",
extra=dict(custom=lambda text: 'x'+text+'x'))</code></pre><p>generates</p><code class="python">'xaaax'</code><p>(the <code class="">``...``:custom</code> block is rendered by the <code class="">custom=lambda</code> function passed to <code class="">render</code>).</p><h3>Html5 support</h3><p>Markmin also supports the <video> and <audio> html5 tags using the notation:
<pre><code class="">[[title link video]]
[[title link audio]]</code></pre></p><h3>Latex and other extensions</h3><p>Formulas can be embedded into HTML with <code class="">$</code><code class="">$</code>formula<code class="">$</code><code class="">$</code>.
You can use Google charts to render the formula:</p><pre><code class="">>>> LATEX = '<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=%s" align="center"/>'
>>> markmin2html(text,{'latex':lambda code: LATEX % code.replace('"','"')})</code></pre><h3>Code with syntax highlighting</h3><p>This requires a syntax highlighting tool, such as the web2py CODE helper.</p><pre><code class="">>>> extra={'code_cpp':lambda text: CODE(text,language='cpp').xml(),
'code_java':lambda text: CODE(text,language='java').xml(),
'code_python':lambda text: CODE(text,language='python').xml(),
'code_html':lambda text: CODE(text,language='html').xml()}
>>> markmin2html(text,extra=extra)</code></pre><p>Code can now be marked up as in this example:</p><pre><code class="">``
<html><body>example</body></html>
``:code_html</code></pre><h3>Citations and References</h3><p>Citations are treated as internal links in html and proper citations in latex if there is a final section called "References". Items like</p><pre><code class="">- [[key]] value</code></pre><p>in the References will be translated into Latex</p><pre><code class="">\bibitem{key} value</code></pre><p>Here is an example of usage:</p><pre><code class="">As shown in Ref.``mdipierro``:cite
## References
- [[mdipierro]] web2py Manual, 3rd Edition, lulu.com</code></pre><h3>Caveats</h3><p><code class=""><ul/></code>, <code class=""><ol/></code>, <code class=""><code/></code>, <code class=""><table/></code>, <code class=""><blockquote/></code>, <code class=""><h1/></code>, ..., <code class=""><h6/></code> do not have <code class=""><p>...</p></code> around them.</p></body></html>