HastyScribe is a simple command-line program able to convert markdown files into HTML files.
hastyscribe filename.md [ --notoc ]
Because:
- It is a cross-platform, self-contained executable file
- It comes with its own stylesheet, which is automatically embedded into every HTML document, along with all the needed web fonts
- It is built on top of Discount, which means that besides standard markdown you also get:
- strikethrough
- automatic Table of Contents generation
- SmartyPants substitutions
- paragraph centering
- image sizes
- definition lists
- alphabetic lists
- pseudo-protocols to generate
spantags with arbitrary CSS classes,abbrtags, and anchors - class blocks
- tables
- fenced code blocks
- Pandoc-style docuemnt headers
- It automatically embeds any referenced local image via data URI
- It has supports for text snippets
HastyScribe is best suited to produce self-contained documents such as essays, meeting notes, project status documents, and articles.
HastyScribe is implemented in Nimrod, a very expressive language that compiles to C and is able to generate small, standalone and self-contained executable files.
First of all you need a libmarkdown.a static library. You can either grab one precompiled (for Windows or Mac OS X) from the vendor folder of the HastyScribe repository or build your own.
If you choose to build your own:
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Clone the discount repository.
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In the directory containing the Discount source code, run the following commands:
./configure.sh --with-tabstops=2 --with-dl=both --with-id-anchor --with-github-tags --with-fenced-code --enable-all-features make
Tip: If you are on Windows, you can compile Discount using MinGW.
Once you have a libmarkdown.a static library for your platform:
- Download and install Nimrod.
- Clone the HastyScribe repository.
- Put your libmarkdown.a file in the vendor directory.
- Run nimrod c hastyscribe.nim