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Nim-markdown

nim-markdown is a Markdown Parser in the Nim world.

Documentation Build Status

Install

Install via nimble in your project root.

$ nimble install markdown

# or with current stable version
$ nimble install markdown@">= 0.8.0"

# or with the latest version
$ nimble install markdown@#head

Library Usage

Below is the minimal usage of using markdown as a library.

# 1. import pkg.
import markdown

# 2. transform md to html.
let html = markdown("# Hello World\nHappy writing Markdown document!")

# 3. do something :)
echo(html)

Below are some useful links:

Binary Usage

The usage of binary markdown is as below:

# Read from stdin and write to stdout.
$ markdown < README.md > README.html

Development

Build markdown binary:

$ nimble build

Test markdown modules:

$ nimble test

Build document:

$ nim doc --project --git.url=https://github.com/soasme/nim-markdown --git.commit=v0.8.0 src/markdown.nim

The Markdown Parser serves as a guidance on the implementation of nim-markdown, or in any generic programming language.

Roadmap

Priorities:

  • Support Commonmark.
  • Support GFM.
  • Support writing extensions.
  • Benchmark.

Features:

  • Thematic Break
  • Heading
  • Indented code block
  • Fence code block
  • Block Quote
  • Ordered/Unordered List
  • Nested lists
  • Raw HTML block
  • Table
  • Ref Link
  • Inline Link
  • Auto link
  • Image Link
  • Emphasis
  • Double Emphasis
  • Strikethrough
  • Link Break
  • Inline Code
  • Inline HTML
  • Escape
  • Paragraph
  • Auto link (extension)
  • Footnote
  • Want new features? Issues or pull requests are welcome. ;)

ChangeLog

Released:

  • v0.8.8, 29 May 2024, performance improvement: read more chars into Text. #72.
  • v0.8.7, 25 Feb 2023, bugfix: allow whitespace and tab after code closing fence. #64.
  • v0.8.6, 9 Jul 2022, bugfix: export no internal procs.
  • v0.8.5, 19 Mar 2021, bugfix: codespan might be empty. #42.
  • v0.8.4, 19 Mar 2021, performance improvement: eliminate all firstLine and restLines calls. (#54, #55, #56).
  • v0.8.3, 13 Mar 2021, performance improvement: faster html pattern matching (#52) & eliminate all since() calls (#53).
  • v0.8.2, 3 Mar 2021, performance improvement: use pre-compiled regex.
  • v0.8.1, 30 Dec 2019, bugfix: fixed compatibility with --gc:arc.
  • v0.8.0, 8 Sep 2019, bugfix: gcsafe with nim --threads:on.
  • v0.7.2, 8 Sep 2019, rename internal package to markdownpkg.
  • v0.7.1, 7 Sep 2019, removed useless constants.
  • v0.7.0, 6 Sep 2019, support parsing in commonmark v0.29 syntax.
  • v0.5.4, 1 Aug 2019, bugfix: improved the ul & ol parsing.
  • v0.5.3, 3 Jun 2019, bugfix: Added import exceptions for strip and splitWhitespace from unicode #20.
  • v0.5.2, 5 Nov 2018, bugfix: ambiguous call.
  • v0.5.1, 4 Nov 2018, inline email support; bugfix: \u00a0 causing build error #16, etc.
  • v0.5.0, 3 Nov 2018, bugfix: links in lists not working (#14), etc.
  • v0.4.0, 27 Oct 2018, support ~~~ as fence mark, etc. #12.
  • v0.3.4, 24 Oct 2018, support hard line breaks (gfm 6.12).
  • v0.3.3, 23 Oct 2018, strict-typed config (#5), add cli options.
  • v0.3.2, 23 Oct 2018, support setext heading.
  • v0.3.1, 22 Oct 2018, bugfix: soft line breaks (gfm 6.13).
  • v0.3.0, 22 Oct 2018, support html table block (#3).
  • v0.2.0, 20 Oct 2018, package published nim-lang/packages#899.
  • v0.1.2, 19 Oct 2018, add parameter config to proc markdown & support [url](<text> "title").
  • v0.1.1, 18 Oct 2018, import from markdown instead markdownpkg/core.
  • v0.1.0, 17 Oct 2018, initial release.

License

Nim-markdown is based on MIT license.