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This script turns Markdown into HTML using the Python markdown library and wraps the result in a complete HTML document with default Bootstrap styling so that it's immediately printable. Requires the python libraries jinja2, markdown, and mdx_smartypants.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| import argparse | |
| import sys | |
| import jinja2 | |
| import markdown | |
| # To install dependencies in a virtualenv: | |
| # $ virtualenv ~/venv-markdown/ | |
| # $ source ~/venv-markdown/bin/activate | |
| # $ pip install jinja2 | |
| # $ pip install markdown | |
| # | |
| # To install dependencies on Ubuntu: | |
| # $ sudo apt-get install python-jinja2 python-markdown | |
| TEMPLATE = """<!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.0/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> | |
| <style> | |
| body { | |
| font-family: sans-serif; | |
| } | |
| code, pre { | |
| font-family: monospace; | |
| } | |
| h1 code, | |
| h2 code, | |
| h3 code, | |
| h4 code, | |
| h5 code, | |
| h6 code { | |
| font-size: inherit; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div class="container"> | |
| {{content}} | |
| </div> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> | |
| """ | |
| def parse_args(args=None): | |
| d = 'Make a complete, styled HTML document from a Markdown file.' | |
| parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=d) | |
| parser.add_argument('mdfile', type=argparse.FileType('r'), nargs='?', | |
| default=sys.stdin, | |
| help='File to convert. Defaults to stdin.') | |
| parser.add_argument('-o', '--out', type=argparse.FileType('w'), | |
| default=sys.stdout, | |
| help='Output file name. Defaults to stdout.') | |
| return parser.parse_args(args) | |
| def main(args=None): | |
| args = parse_args(args) | |
| md = args.mdfile.read() | |
| extensions = ['extra', 'smarty'] | |
| html = markdown.markdown(md, extensions=extensions, output_format='html5') | |
| doc = jinja2.Template(TEMPLATE).render(content=html) | |
| args.out.write(doc) | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| sys.exit(main()) |
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