MULTIMARKDOWN(1p)

✨ MULTIMARKDOWN ✨

okay bestie, so this is multimarkdown, from the perl manual pages (section 1p, user contributed perl docs, iykyk) 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

multimarkdown — convert MultiMarkdown syntax to (X)HTML. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this program ships as part of Perl's Text::MultiMarkdown module — it's basically the demo girl, the sample usage, the "here's how you'd actually use this" moment 🫶

you can invoke multimarkdown on literally any file that contains MultiMarkdown syntax, and it will produce the matching (X)HTML on STDOUT. like, that's the whole vibe:

$ cat file.txt
[MultiMarkdown][] *extends* the very well-known [Markdown][] syntax.

[MultiMarkdown]: http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

$ multimarkdown file.txt
<p><a href="http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown">MultiMarkdown</a> <em>extends</em> the very well-known <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a> syntax.</p>

and if you don't hand her a file at all? she just expects her input from STDIN, no questions asked, main character energy fr fr:

$ echo "A **simple** test" | multimarkdown
<p>A <strong>simple</strong> test</p>

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• version — shows the full information for this version 👑 (the whole lore, not just the number)
• shortversion — shows only the version number. just the digits, minimal, clean ✨
• html4tags — produce HTML 4-style tags instead of XHTML. here's the tea: XHTML requires elements that do not wrap a block (i.e. the hr tag) to state they will not be closed, by closing with />. HTML 4-style will plainly output the tag as it comes 🌈 like:

$ echo '---' | multimarkdown
<hr />
$ echo '---' | multimarkdown --html4tags
<hr>

• help — shows this documentation 💖 (hi, you're reading her)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

• Copyright 2004 John Gruber
• Copyright 2006 Fletcher Penny
• Copyright 2008 Tomas Doran

the manpage was written by Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> for its use in Debian systems, but can be freely used elsewhere 🫶 (she's generous like that)

for full licensing information, please refer to Text::MultiMarkdown.pm's full documentation — go read the source bestie, the receipts are all there 📜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Text::MultiMarkdown
• <http://fletcherpenney.net/What_is_MultiMarkdown>

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🧚 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-21, living her best life in the MULTIMARKDOWN(1p) section — mwah, periodt 💅💖