NAME

maruku - converts markdown files to various output

SYNOPSIS

maruku [options] [file1.md [file2.md ...]]

DESCRIPTION

maruku is a markdown interpreter: it accepts files written in the markdown language and transforms them into HTML, TeX of PDF (using pdflatex). If no file is given on the command-line, maruku acts as a filter and converts standard input to standard output.

OPTIONS

-v, --[no-]verbose

Run verbosely

-u, --[no-]unsafe

Use unsafe features

-b

Break on error

-i, --math-images ENGINE

Uses ENGINE to render TeX to PNG.

-m, --math-engine ENGINE

Uses ENGINE to render MathML

-o, --output FILE

Output filename

--pdf

Creates PDF output using pdflatex. Please see the NOTE below.

--s5

Write S5 slideshow

--html

Write HTML output.

--html-frag

Write the contents of the BODY.

--tex

Write LaTeX

--inspect

Shows the parsing result

--version

Show version

SEE ALSO

marutex(1) pdflatex(1).

NOTE

An important note for debian users: to prevent a lightweight library such as libmaruku-ruby to pull in heavy dependencies like texlive, libmaruku-ruby does not depend on texlive (but only recommends it). This means that if you do not install texlive, you will not have PDF output.

AUTHOR

maruku was written by Andrea Censi <andrea@rubyforge.org>.

This manual page was written by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).