Welcome to Mawkdown

Mawkdown is a toy markdown parser written in AWK

It requires GAWK, because it uses the match function.

Try Mawkdown

Generate html from the README:

awk -f mawkdown.awk README.md

Open README in firefox:

awk -f mawkdown.awk README.md | ./pipefox.sh

Or something simpler:

echo -e "# title\n## subtitle" | awk -f mawkdown.awk

It supports all of these things

Now look at this fine rust code:

let x = 5;
printf!("{} + {} = {}", x, x, x + x);

here's a link to my other project called digester.

this is not the first time I'm having fun with AWK: awk-jvm.

and here's some quoted text

Sample h3

what does the above code do?

• store the value 5 in the variable x
• call the printf macro

italic with underscores

bold with asterisks

bold with underscores

italic with asterisks

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What does it look like?

(note that pipefox does not work with relative images)

Limitations

basically any line can only contain one thing

• formatting within a list does not work
• langauge-specific formatting