Markdown Discuss - May 2008 - markdown implementation in C using PEG grammar

I've just uploaded an implementation of markdown in C.  It defines
the syntax using a PEG grammar, so it should be easy to extend and
modify. Right now it can produce output in either HTML or LaTeX, but it
would be simple to add other output formats.

It's very fast: on my machine, it converts a 178K markdown file in
0.14 seconds (vs. 9.6 seconds for the latest Markdown.pl and 0.57
seconds for phpmarkdown).

It passes all the tests in the Markdown 1.0.3 test suite, with one
exception (an edge case where there is room for disagreement).

It's on github at http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tree/master.
If you use git, you can clone the repository:

    git clone git://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown.git    

Otherwise, download a tarball:

    http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tarball/master

Once you're in the peg-markdown directory, you can compile the program
by typing 'make'. For convenience, all required dependencies are
included, including Ian Piumarta's excellent peg/leg parser generator.

If you just want to have a look at the formal grammar, it's here:

    http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown/tree/master/markdown.leg#L675

John

On 3 May 2008, at 01:52, John MacFarlane wrote:
> I've just uploaded an implementation of markdown in C.  It defines
> the syntax using a PEG grammar, so it should be easy to extend and
> modify. Right now it can produce output in either HTML or LaTeX,  
> but it
> would be simple to add other output formats.
>
I've added support for this to my babelmark:

http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=++*+foo%0D%0A%0D%0Abar

Enjoy.

It is not, howevere, showing up in the 'compare' option. As it's  
2:30am here, I'm going to ignore this and go to bed in the short term.

Have fun.

Cheers
Tom