[ANN] markdown.lua 0.10

[Niklas Frykholm <niklas@...>]

# markdown.lua -- version 0.10

<http://www.frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua>

**Author:** Niklas Frykholm, <niklas@frykholm.se>  
**Date:** 3 May 2006

This is an implementation of the popular text markup language Markdown 
in pure Lua.
Markdown can convert documents written in a simple and easy to read text 
format
to well-formatted HTML. For a more thourough description of Markdown and 
the Markdown
syntax, see <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown>.

The original Markdown source is written in Perl and makes heavy use of 
advanced
regular expression techniques (such as negative look-ahead, etc) which 
are not available
in Lua's simple regex engine. Therefore this Lua port has been rewritten 
from the ground
up. It is probably not completely bug free. If you notice any bugs, 
please report them to
me. A unit test that exposes the error is helpful.

## Usage

   require "markdown"
   markdown(source)

``markdown.lua`` exposes a single global function named ``markdown(s)`` 
which applies the
Markdown transformation to the specified string.

``markdown.lua`` can also be used directly from the command line:

   lua markdown.lua test.md

Creates a file ``test.html`` with the converted content of ``test.md``. Run:

   lua markdown.lua -h

For a description of the command-line options.

// Niklas