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LOWDOWN_GEMINI_RNDR(3) Library Functions Manual LOWDOWN_GEMINI_RNDR(3)

lowdown_gemini_rndrrender Markdown into gemini

library “liblowdown”

#include <sys/queue.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <lowdown.h>

int
lowdown_gemini_rndr(struct lowdown_buf *out, struct lowdown_metaq *mq, void *arg, const struct lowdown_node *n);

Renders a node tree n created by lowdown_doc_parse(3) or lowdown_diff(3) using the gemini renderer arg as returned by lowdown_gemini_new(3). The output is written into out, which must be initialised and freed by the caller.

If mq is not NULL, it is filled with any metadata as parsed. It must be initialised and its contents freed with lowdown_metaq_free(3).

The caller is expected to have invoked setlocale(3) to a "UTF-8" character encoding prior to using this function, otherwise UTF-8 sequences will not be properly recognised. This is used when formatting table column widths.

Returns zero on failure to allocate memory, non-zero on success.

The following assumes the the string buf of length bsz consists of Markdown content.

struct lowdown_buf *out;
struct lowdown_doc *doc;
struct lowdown_node *n;
void *rndr;

if (setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8") == NULL)
  err(1, NULL);

if ((doc = lowdown_doc_new(NULL)) == NULL)
  err(1, NULL);
if ((n = lowdown_doc_parse(doc, NULL, buf, bsz)) == NULL)
  err(1, NULL);
if ((out = lowdown_buf_new(256)) == NULL)
  err(1, NULL);
if ((rndr = lowdown_gemini_new(NULL)) == NULL)
  err(1, NULL);
if (!lowdown_gemini_rndr(out, NULL, rndr, n))
  err(1, NULL);

fwrite(out->data, 1, out->size, stdout);

lowdown_gemini_free(rndr);
lowdown_buf_free(out);
lowdown_node_free(n);
lowdown_doc_free(doc);

lowdown(3), lowdown_gemini_free(3), lowdown_gemini_new(3)

The gemini format is documented in Project Gemini. The version at the time of writing is 0.14.3.

February 13, 2021 Debian