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Quick and dirty Markdown script.
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md.py
import sys
import markdown
USAGE = "%s <file.md> <css dir>" % __file__
TAIL = """
</body>
</html>
"""
def main(args):
if len(args) < 3:
print USAGE
sys.exit(1)
css_dir = args[2].strip()
if css_dir.endswith("/"):
css_dir = css_dir[:-1]
head = """
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link href="%s/markdown-print.css" rel="stylesheet"></link>
</head>
<body>
""" % args[2]
md_file = args[1].strip()
md = open(md_file).read()
marked = markdown.markdown(unicode(md, "utf8"))
marked = unicode(head) + marked + unicode(TAIL)
html_file = md_file.replace(".md", ".html")
with open(html_file, "w") as output:
output.write(marked.encode("utf8"))
print "Wrote to %s." % html_file
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv)
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