[ANN] lunamark 0.2 - lpeg-based markdown converter

[John MacFarlane <jgm@...>]

I'm pleased to announce the release of lunamark 0.2. This is a complete
rewrite of the 2009 version, with a new API. I am very grateful to Hans Hagen,
who resurrected the project for use in ConTeXt and made major improvements in
the efficiency and performance of the code.

Lunamark is a lua library and command-line program for conversion of markdown
to other textual formats. Currently HTML, dzslides (HTML5 slides), Docbook,
ConTeXt, LaTeX, and Groff man are the supported output formats, but it is easy
to add new writers or modify existing ones. The markdown parser is written
using a PEG grammar and can also be modified by the user.

The library is as portable as lua and has very good performance. It is
slightly faster than the author's own C library peg-markdown, an order of
magnitude faster than pandoc, two orders of magnitude faster than Markdown.pl,
and three orders of magnitude faster than markdown.lua.

The lunamark distribution includes the library and two programs:

  lunamark:  command-line markdown converter
  lunadoc:   a simple lua documentation tool

For more information, see lunamark's website: http://jgm.github.com/lunamark.

I will submit a rockspec to the luarocks repository shortly.

John