MultiMarkdown 3.0a3 available
The latest release of MultiMarkdown 3.0 (AKA peg-multimarkdown) is available. This release fixes a few memory leaks (still more to go…), a bug in table parsing, a bug in metadata parsing, and a couple of other bugs.
https://github.com/fletcher/peg-multimarkdown/downloads
Additionally, there is now a “batch mode” that allows you to process multiple files at once into HTML or LaTeX. My goal is that a single binary should be able to handle most of what I previously used a rather complicated system of perl scripts to do.
So now you can do any of the following to process a text file (or multiple text files) into HTML:
cat file.txt | multimarkdown > file.html
multimarkdown file.txt > file.html
multimarkdown -b file.txt
Note: Previously several of the scripts, mmd2pdf.pl and similar, would not
just convert the MultiMarkdown file into LaTeX, but would then run the
pdflatex commands to create the pdf automatically. This convenience script
certainly simplified things for those who knew what they were doing, but it
made things seem a bit too much like “magic” to some, who then had trouble
distinguishing problems with LaTeX from problems with MultiMarkdown. So, in
order to make it clear that I don’t actually support LaTeX, and that
MultiMarkdown doesn’t really have anything to do with processing LaTeX (it
simply helps you to generate the source file), and to keep the MultiMarkdown
binary compatible across systems, I will no longer support this feature.
MultiMarkdown’s “responsibility” ends prior to processing the LaTeX. I suggest
using latexmk or something similar to automate that process (essentially, my
script simply mimicked a “dumb” version of what latexmk does.)
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