This Markdown CLI is built using https://github.com/yuin/goldmark. I've learned about Goldmark, a Markdown parser written in Go, from Dan North and decided to add it to my toolchain. (This happened after me sharing that I've been using Perl to add support for footnotes in Markdown.pl.)
The route I've taken with this tool was to enable by default all extensions I normally use and provide flags for disabling them.
The following extensions are enabled:
- block level
- front matter (in YAML or TOML format)
- tasks
- [ ] a task - definition lists
- tables
- figures (replaces
imgwithfigure)
- span level
- footnotes (footnote
[^1]) - strikethrough (
~~striked~~) - wikilinks (
[[example.markdown]]) - typography (transforms single, double quotes, elipsis into HTML entities)
- header IDs
- footnotes (footnote
On a macOS, run make and it will build for both architectures (ARM, Intel).