gmp26 / md2html

Walk a markdown tree, creating html

md2html

md2html walks a directory of markdown files, running pandoc on each one to create a similar tree of html files. It is hugely more efficient than scripting multiple pandoc executions when processing a large number of files. On 4000 files we saw an 8 minute run reduce to a 10 second run.

Installation

This is all very provisional and needs to be verified!

First you'll need to install the 2014 Haskell Platform. You need at least ghc 7.8 and cabal 1.18.

Then, clone this repo and use cabal to install it in a sandbox. If prompted for other dependencies, install those too using cabal install dependency_name.

git clone github.com/gmp26/md2html.git
cd md2html
cabal sandbox init
cabal install pandoc
cabal install Glob
cabal configure
cabal install

When this is successful, the executable will be built in .cabal-sandbox/bin/md2html. It's too large to distribute here since it embeds pandoc.

Test

cd md2html
mv html html.orig
.cabal-sandbox/bin/md2html

This will rebuild the html folder from the md folder.