markdown - convert text to HTML

           John Gruber
           http://daringfireball.net

           PHP port and other contributions by Michel Fortin
           http://michelf.com

       To  file  bug  reports or feature requests (other than topics listed in the Caveats section above) please
       send email to:

           support@daringfireball.net

       Please include with your report: (1) the example input; (2) the  output  you  expected;  (3)  the  output
       Markdown actually produced.

       Copyright (c) 2003-2004 John Gruber <http://daringfireball.net/> All rights reserved.

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       that the following conditions are met:

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       * Neither the name "Markdown" nor the names of its contributors may
         be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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perl v5.38.2                                       2024-08-13                                        MARKDOWN(1)

       Markdown is a text-to-HTML filter; it translates an easy-to-read / easy-to-write structured text format
       into HTML. Markdown's text format is most similar to that of plain text email, and supports features such
       as headers, *emphasis*, code blocks, blockquotes, and links.

       Markdown's syntax is designed not as a generic markup language, but specifically to serve as a front-end
       to (X)HTML. You can  use span-level HTML tags anywhere in a Markdown document, and you can use block
       level HTML tags (like <div> and <table> as well).

       For more information about Markdown's syntax, see:

           http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

       markdown - convert text to HTML

       Use "--" to end switch parsing. For example, to open a file named "-z", use:

               markdown -- -z

       --html4tags
           Use HTML 4 style for empty element tags, e.g.:

               <br>

           instead of Markdown's default XHTML style tags, e.g.:

               <br />

       -v, --version
           Display Markdown's version number and copyright information.

       -s, --shortversion
           Display the short-form version number.

markdown [ --html4tags ] [ --version ] [ -shortversion ] [ file ... ]

       use Markdown; $html=Markdown::Markdown($text);