NAME
Markdown::Render - Render markdown as HTML
SYNOPSIS
use Markdown::Render;
my $md = Markdown::Render->new( infile => 'README.md');
$md->render_markdown->print_html;
...or from the command line to create HTML
md-utils.pl -r README.md > README.html
...or from the command line to replace render custom tags
md-utils.pl README.md.in > README.md
DESCRIPTION
Renders markdown as HTML using either GitHub's API or Text::Markdown::Discount. Optionally adds additional metadata to markdown document using custom tags.
See README.md for more details.
Note: This module originally used Text::Markdown as an alternative to using the GitHub API however, there are too many bugs and idiosyncracies in that module. This module will now use Text::Markdown::Discount which is not only faster, but seems to be more compliant with GFM.
Note: Text::Markdown::Discount relies on the text-markdown library which did not actually support all of the markdown features (including code fencing). You can find an updated version of Text::Markdown::Discount here: https://github.com/rlauer6/text-markdown-discount
METHODS AND SUBROUTINES
new
new( options )
Any of the options passed to the new
method can also be set or retrieved use the set_NAME
or get_NAME
methods.
- css
-
URL of a CSS file to add to head section of printed HTML.
- engine
-
One of
github
ortext_markdown
.default: github
- git_user
-
Name of the git user that is used in the
GIT_USER
tag. - git_email
-
Email address of the git user that is used in the
GIT_EMAIL
tag. - infile
-
Path to a file in markdow format.
- markdown
-
Text of the markdown to be rendered.
- mode
-
If using the GitHub API, mode can be either
gfm
ormarkdown
.default: markdown
- no_title
-
Boolean that indicates that no title should be added to the table of contents.
default: false
- title
-
Title to be used for the table of contents.
finalize_markdown
Updates the markdown by interpolating the custom keywords. Invoking this method will create a table of contents and replace keywords with their values.
Invoke this method prior to invoking render_markdown
.
Returns the Markdown::Render object.
render_markdown
Passes the markdown to GitHub's markdown rendering engine. After invoking this method you can retrieve the processed html by invoking get_html
or create a fully rendered HTML page using the print_html
method.
Returns the Markdown::Render object.
print_html
print_html(options)
Outputs the fully rendered HTML page.
- css
-
URL of a CSS style sheet to include in the head section. If no CSS file option is passed a default CSS file will b used. If a CSS element is passed but it is undefined or empty, then no CSS will be specified in the final document.
- title
-
Title to be added in the head section of the document. If no title option is passed the name of the file will be use as the title. If an title option is passed but is undefined or empty, no title element will be added to the document.
AUTHOR
Rob Lauer - rlauer6@comcast.net