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Black Friday
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This is an implementation of John Gruber's [markdown][1] in [Go][2].
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It is a translation of the [upskirt][3] library written in C with a
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few minor changes. It retains the paranoia of the original (it is
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careful not to trust its input, and as such it should be safe to
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feed it arbitrary user-supplied inputs). It also retains the
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emphasis on high performance, and the source is almost as ugly as
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the original.
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HTML output is currently supported, along with Smartpants
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extensions.
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Installation
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Assuming you have recent version of Go installed, along with git:
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goinstall github.com/russross/blackfriday
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will download, compile, and install the package into
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`$GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com/russross/blackfriday`.
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Check out `example/main.go` for an example of how to use it. Run
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`gomake` in that directory to build a simple command-line markdown
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tool:
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cd $GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com/russross/blackfriday
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gomake markdown
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will build the binary `markdown` in the `example` directory.
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2011-05-29 05:43:17 +02:00
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Features
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--------
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All features of upskirt are supported, including:
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* The Markdown v1.0.3 test suite passes with the `--tidy` option.
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Without `--tidy`, the differences appear to be bugs/dubious
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features in the original.
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* Common extensions, including table support, fenced code blocks,
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autolinks, strikethroughs, non-strict emphasis, etc.
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* Paranoid parsing, making it safe to feed untrusted used input
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without fear of bad things happening. There are still some
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corner cases that are untested, but it is already more strict
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than upskirt (Go's bounds-checking uncovered a few off-by-one
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errors that were present in the C code).
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* Good performance. I have not done rigorous benchmarking, but
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2011-05-29 17:30:57 +02:00
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informal testing suggests it is around 8x slower than upskirt.
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This is still an ugly, direct translation from the C code, so
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the difference is unlikely to be related to differences in
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coding style. There is a lot of bounds checking that is
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duplicated (by user code for the application and again by code
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the compiler generates) and there is some additional memory
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management overhead, since I allocate and garbage collect
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buffers instead of explicitly managing them as upskirt does.
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* Minimal dependencies. blackfriday only depends on standard
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library packages in Go. The source code is pretty
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self-contained, so it is easy to add to any project.
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2011-05-29 05:33:16 +02:00
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Extensions
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----------
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In addition to the extensions offered by upskirt, this package
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implements two additional Smartypants options:
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* LaTeX-style dash parsing, where `--` is translated into
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`–`, and `---` is translated into `—`
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* Generic fractions, where anything that looks like a fraction
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is translated into suitable HTML (instead of just a few special
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cases). For example, `4/5` becomes `<sup>4</sup>⁄<sub>5</sub>`
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Todo
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----
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* Code cleanup
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* Better code documentation
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* Implement a LaTeX backend
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[1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ "Markdown"
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[2]: http://golang.org/ "Go Language"
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[3]: http://github.com/tanoku/upskirt "Upskirt"
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