Kramdown 0.1.0 - first relase of fast, pure Ruby Markdown parser

kramdown 0.1.0 released

This is the first release of kramdown, yet-another-Markdown
parser/converter for Ruby, with the following features:

  • Written in pure Ruby, no need to compile an extension (like BlueCloth
    or rdiscount)

  • Fast (current impl ~5x faster than Maruku, ~10x faster than
    BlueFeather, although ~30x slower than native code like rdiscount)

  • Strict syntax definition (special cases for which the original
    Markdown page does not account for are explicitly listed and it is
    shown how kramdown parses them - see the [Syntax] page)

  • Supports common Markdown extension (similar to Maruku)
    [Syntax]: http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html

About kramdown

kramdown is a free GPL-licensed Ruby
library for parsing Markdown-like syntax. It is completely written in
Ruby, supports standard Markdown (with some minor modifications) and
various extensions that have been made popular by the PHP Markdown
Extra package and Maruku.

Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
http://kramdown.rubyforge.org

Thomas L. wrote:

Homepage for installation instructions and documentation:
http://kramdown.rubyforge.org

This documentation is excellent, Thomas. Good work! :slight_smile:

Thomas L. wrote:

Thanks for this gem and especially for the extensions!

On 21 Nov 2009, at 09:05, Thomas L. wrote:

kramdown 0.1.0 released

This is the first release of kramdown, yet-another-Markdown
parser/converter for Ruby, with the following features: […]

Sweet! This looks quite useful and I’ll be giving this a try in the next
few days. I’ve already added support for Kramdown to nanoc
(http://nanoc.stoneship.org/) at the request of a kramdown/nanoc user
whose name unfortunately escapes me at this point…

Regards,

Denis