commit 9dc13bc2bcda82e0a3cd017fc5a8514b29c040d8
Author: Konstantin Nazarov <mail@knazarov.com>
Date:   Sun Jun 27 18:06:41 2021 +0000

    Initial implementation

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+# A markdown-to-html in pure awk
+
+This awk script reads markdown files and generates html from them.
+Compared to other implementations of markdown in awk, it tries to do the right thing most of the time.
+
+You can use `markdown.awk` to generate html pages from your plaintext notes, or send html emails with mutt.
+
+**This is a work in progress**
+
+## Usage
+
+You can try it out by converting this readme to html:
+
+```
+awk -f markdown.awk README.md
+```
+
+## License
+
+Distributed under the terms of the BSD License
+
diff --git a/markdown.awk b/markdown.awk
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+# markdown implementation in awk
+# references: 
+# - https://gist.github.com/xdanger/116153
+# - https://github.com/nuex/zodiac/blob/master/lib/markdown.awk
+# - https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-08-26-minimal-markdown.html
+
+BEGIN {
+	si = 0;
+	stack[si] = "body";
+	val[si] = 0
+	res[si] = ""
+	i = 0;
+}
+
+function peek(num) {
+	return substr($0, i, num);
+}
+
+function push(block) {
+	stack[++si] = block;
+	res[si] = "";
+	val[si] = 0;
+}
+
+function pop(str) {
+	res[si-1] = res[si-1] str
+	res[si] = ""
+	val[si] = 0
+	si--
+
+	if (stack[si] == "body") {
+		printf(res[si]);
+		res[si] = ""
+	}
+}
+
+function handle_code() {
+	if (peek(1) == "`") {
+		i = i + 1;
+		pop("<code>" res[si] "</code>")
+		return;
+	}
+	if ($0 == "") {
+		pop("`" res[si])
+		return;
+	}
+	if (i > length($0)) {
+		next;
+	}
+
+	if (i == 1 && length(res[si]) > 0)
+		res[si] = res[si] " ";
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1)
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_code_long() {
+	if (peek(3) == "```") {
+		i = i + 3;
+		pop("<code>" res[si] "</code>")
+		return;
+	}
+	if (i > length($0)) {
+		res[si] = res[si] "\n";
+		next;
+	}
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1)
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_inline_code() {
+	if (peek(1) == "`") {
+		i = i + 1;
+		pop("<code>" res[si] "</code>")
+		return;
+	}
+	if (i > length($0)) {
+		pop("`" res[si]);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1)
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_inline_code_long() {
+	if (peek(3) == "```") {
+		i = i + 3;
+		pop("<code>" res[si] "</code>")
+		return;
+	}
+	if (i > length($0)) {
+		pop("```" res[si]);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1)
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_inline_strong() {
+	if (peek(2) == "**") {
+		i = i + 2;
+		pop("<strong>" res[si] "</strong>")
+		return;
+	}
+	if (peek(3) == "```") {
+		i = i + 3;
+		push("inline_code_long");
+		return;
+	}
+	if (peek(1) == "`") {
+		i = i + 1;
+		push("inline_code");
+		return;
+	}
+    if (i > length($0)) {
+		pop("**" res[si]);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1)
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_inline() {
+	if (peek(2) == "**") {
+		i = i + 2;
+		push("inline_strong");
+		return;
+	}
+	if (peek(3) == "```") {
+		i = i + 3;
+		push("inline_code_long");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1);
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_block() {
+	if (peek(3) == "```") {
+		i = i + 3;
+		push("code_long");
+		return;
+	}
+	if (peek(1) == "`") {
+		i = i + 1;
+		push("code");
+		return;
+	}
+	res[si] = res[si] peek(1);
+	i++;
+}
+
+function handle_paragraph() {
+    if (i == 1 && ($0 == "" || peek(1) == "#")) {
+		if (length(res[si]) > 0)
+			pop("<p>" res[si] "</p>\n");
+		else
+			pop("");
+
+		if (peek(1) == "#")
+			return;
+
+		next;
+	}
+
+	if (i == 1 && length(res[si]) > 0)
+		res[si] = res[si] " ";
+
+	handle_block();
+
+	if (i > length($0))
+		next;
+}
+
+function handle_header() {
+	if (i == 1)	{
+		match($0, /#+/);
+	    val[si] = RLENGTH;
+		i = RLENGTH + 1;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (i>length($0)) {
+		pop("<h" val[si] ">" res[si] "</h" val[si] ">\n");
+		next;
+	}
+
+	handle_inline();
+}
+
+function handle_body() {
+	if (peek(1) == "#") {
+		push("header");
+		return;
+	}
+	else {
+		push("paragraph");
+		return;
+	}
+}
+
+// {
+	i = 1;
+
+	while (1) {
+		if (stack[si] == "body")
+			handle_body();
+		else if (stack[si] == "paragraph")
+			handle_paragraph();
+		else if (stack[si] == "header")
+			handle_header();
+		else if (stack[si] == "inline_strong")
+			handle_inline_strong();
+		else if (stack[si] == "inline_code_long")
+			handle_inline_code_long();
+		else if (stack[si] == "inline_code")
+			handle_inline_code();
+		else if (stack[si] == "code_long")
+			handle_code_long();
+		else if (stack[si] == "code")
+			handle_code();
+	}
+}
+
+
+END {
+	#print res[si];
+	#newblock();
+}