01.07.2025 02:38:46 Stanley Lieber <[email protected]>:
>> On Jun 30, 2025, at 6:39 PM, Stanley Lieber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  > markdown
>>
>> this builds and runs on plan 9:
>>
>> https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/

I'll look at that, it looks promising!

> actually, werc even ships an awk implementation:
> https://only9fans.com/sl/werc/63085c71ab79cb4defc3ba64b5285e7db86f0d07/bin/contrib/md2html.awk/f.html

I don't use werc. I also built a converter in awk for my epublish suite, which 
uses a markdown-inspired language. In this case though, I'd like to have a few 
more features such as those provided by discount (fenced code block, 
definitions, styles/classes, to name a few.)

> while i realize markdown was just an example, it’s interesting that a lot of 
> useful tools can be easily implemented with bits and pieces we already have 
> aboard.

One thing I hate is that everything nowadays has to be implemented in Python or 
C#, while it's often much easier to use languages like awk or sed (in 
combination with a shell script).

sirjofri

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