MarkDown - HTML Documenter

This project allows you to create a documentation file in markdown. It automatically traduces it to a fancy and customizable HTML via css. A default theme is provided

Download and Installation

• Download the code

    $ git clone git://github.com/conwetlab/Markdown-Documentation.git

• Install the dependencies

Dependencies

• Python
• Setup tools or pip, for automatic installation of python dependencies
• Python markdown. If you have setup tools installed, execute

    $ sudo easy_install Markdown

• Pygments. If you have setup tools installed, execute

    $ sudo easy_install Pygments

Usage

1. Create a documentation.md file, using extended markdown syntax (see section Syntax).
2. Modify the style.css according to your needs
3. Choose an appropriate style for syntax.css. A list of valid code styles can be found in code style section. To select an specific style, run

    $ pygmentize -S [style-name] -f html > syntax.css

4. Add the installation directory to the PYTHONPATH

    $ export PYTHONPATH=.

5. Run

    $ make

5. A documentation.html file will be created

Valid Syntax

• Standard Markdown
• Automatic table of contents

    [TOC]

• Definition lists:

    Item 1
    :   Definition1
    Item 2
    :   Definition2

• Images with captions:

    !![Image Caption][Image Number](http://imageurl.org/image.png)

Available Code styles

For more information about the available code styles, go to Pygments homepage

• nokai
• manny
• perldoc
• borland
• colorful
• default
• murphy
• vs
• trac
• tango
• fruity
• autumn
• bw
• emacs
• vim
• pastie
• friendly
• native