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Do we have a terminal "renderer" for Markdown? That doesn't make too many assumptions? The could be a start. Or perhaps a utility which renders Markdown as trof

Do we have a terminal "renderer" for Markdown? That doesn't make too many assumptions? The could be a start. Or perhaps a utility which renders Markdown as troff. Anyway, you should probably ask the author/maintainer of groff about these matters: James Clark, whose homepage is http://www.jclark.com/ http://www.jclark.com/

tyingq 6y ago
Pandoc is a fairly popular package that can convert between md and man page formats (many other formats also). Perl's POD is also a pretty natural starting point that generates md and man pages from a reasonable source format.
- microtherion 6y ago
  I used POD for several years to write my manpages. Recently i bit the bullet and started writing in mdoc. Still not sure this was the right choice: It's a terrible formatting language, but it is a bit richer in what formatting it can express.
- einpoklum 6y ago
  That's not what I was asking, actually. I meant rendering markdown directly on a terminal, not going through troff. But this is not so bad as a temporary measure - instead of having man render the troff and pipe it into pager, pandoc will render the markdown into troff, pipe it to man (I guess), then to pager. Shouldn't be terribly difficult to set up.
  - tyingq 6y ago
    Ah, okay. There's mdless: https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless Also, for Windows, Microsoft made something similar: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/show-markdown https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
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dredmorbius 6y ago
mktotext () { pandoc --standalone --from markdown --to html -o - $1 | /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html | ${PAGER:-less} } Tune to preferred utilities. Invoking a console browser directly on the HTML rather than dumping ASCII is another option.

tyingq 6y ago

Pandoc is a fairly popular package that can convert between md and man page formats (many other formats also). Perl's POD is also a pretty natural starting point that generates md and man pages from a reasonable source format.

microtherion 6y ago
I used POD for several years to write my manpages. Recently i bit the bullet and started writing in mdoc. Still not sure this was the right choice: It's a terrible formatting language, but it is a bit richer in what formatting it can express.
einpoklum 6y ago
That's not what I was asking, actually. I meant rendering markdown directly on a terminal, not going through troff. But this is not so bad as a temporary measure - instead of having man render the troff and pipe it into pager, pandoc will render the markdown into troff, pipe it to man (I guess), then to pager. Shouldn't be terribly difficult to set up.
- tyingq 6y ago
  Ah, okay. There's mdless: https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless Also, for Windows, Microsoft made something similar: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/show-markdown https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

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dredmorbius 6y ago

mktotext () { pandoc --standalone --from markdown --to html -o - $1 | /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html | ${PAGER:-less} } Tune to preferred utilities. Invoking a console browser directly on the HTML rather than dumping ASCII is another option.