From 5fcf8acaf53d228287af23289505f2609d2ff874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:55:05 -0700 Subject: Improved README. --- README.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 870e3b1..13dd5a2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,11 @@ -CommonMark -========== +cmark +===== -CommonMark is a rationalized version of Markdown syntax, -with a [spec][the spec] and BSD-licensed reference -implementations in C and JavaScript. +`cmark` is the C reference implementation of [CommonMark], a +rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a [spec][the spec]. +(For the JavaScript reference implementation, see +[commonmark.js].) -[Try it now!](http://try.commonmark.org/) - -For more information, see . - -This repository contains the C reference implementation. It provides a shared library (`libcmark`) with functions for parsing CommonMark documents to an abstract syntax tree (AST), manipulating the AST, and rendering the document to HTML, groff man, @@ -17,16 +13,34 @@ CommonMark, or an XML representation of the AST. It also provides a command-line program (`cmark`) for parsing and rendering CommonMark documents. -The library and program are written in standard C99 and have -no library dependencies. The parser is very fast, on par with -[sundown]: see the [benchmarks]. +Advantages of this library: + +- **Portable.** The library and program are written in standard + C99 and have no external dependencies. It has been tested with + MSVC, gcc, tcc, and clang. + +- **Fast.** Performance is on par with the fastest existing + Markdown parser, [sundown]: see the [benchmarks]. + +- **Accurate.** The library passes all CommonMark conformance tests. + +- **Robust.** The library has been extensively fuzz-tested using + american fuzzy lop. The test suite includes pathological cases + that bring many other Markdown parsers to a crawl (for example, + thousands-deep nested bracketed text or block quotes). + +- **Flexible.** CommonMark input is parsed to an AST which can be + manipulated programatically prior to rendering. + +- **Multiple renderers.** Output in HTML, groff man, CommonMark, + and a custom XML format is supported. And it is easy to write new + renderers to support other formats. + +- **Free.** BSD2-licensed. It is easy to use `libcmark` in python, lua, ruby, and other dynamic languages: see the `wrappers/` subdirectory for some simple examples. -[sundown]: https://github.com/vmg/sundown -[benchmarks]: benchmarks.md -[the spec]: http://spec.commonmark.org Installing ---------- @@ -132,5 +146,10 @@ eliminating several worst-case performance issues. Nick Wellnhofer contributed many improvements, including most of the C library's API and its test harness. +[sundown]: https://github.com/vmg/sundown +[benchmarks]: benchmarks.md +[the spec]: http://spec.commonmark.org +[CommonMark]: http://commonmark.org [cmake]: http://www.cmake.org/download/ [re2c]: http://re2c.org +[commonmark.js]: https://github.com/jgm/commonmark.js -- cgit v1.2.3