What is MarkdownPapers? ======================= MarkdownPapers is a java implementation of Markdown language created by [John Gruber] in collaboration with [Aaron Swartz], which provides an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that takes many cues from existing conventions for marking up plain text in email. This implementation consist in parser built from a [JAVACC] grammar definition that produces an abstract syntax tree ([AST]) where transformations are performed following the [Visitor Pattern]. Quick example ------------- The most prominent component would be org.tautua.markdownpapers.Markdown which receives a java.io.Reader (input content) and java.io.Writer (output). Reader in = new FileReader("in.md"); Writer out = new FileWriter("out.html"); Markdown md = new Markdown(); md.transform(in, out); And if you need to handle the AST by your own... Reader in = new FileReader("in.md"); Visitor v = new HtmlEmitter(); Parser parser = new Parser(in); Document doc = parser.parse(); doc.accept(v); Maven dependency ---------------- You can add markdonwpapers to your project as dependency for immediate use :). org.tautua.markdownpapers markdownpapers-core ${use latest} [John Gruber]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown [Aaron Swartz]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz [JAVACC]: http://javacc.java.net [AST]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree [Visitor Pattern]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern