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.Dd January 18, 2008
.Dt MKD_LINE 3
.Os Mastodon
.Sh NAME
.Nm mkd_line 
.Nd do Markdown translation of small items
.Sh LIBRARY
Markdown 
.Pq libmarkdown , -lmarkdown
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <mkdio.h>
.Ft int
.Fn mkd_line "char *string" "int size" "char **doc" "int flags"
.Ft int
.Fn mkd_generateline "char *string" "int size" "FILE *output" "int flags"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Pp
Occasionally one might want to do markdown translations on fragments of
data, like the title of an weblog article, a date, or a simple signature
line.
.Nm mkd_line
and
.Nm mkd_generateline
allow you to do markdown translations on small blocks of text.
.Nm mkd_line
allocates a buffer, then writes the translated text into that buffer,
and
.Nm mkd_generateline
writes the output to the specified
.Ar FILE* .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr markdown 1 ,
.Xr markdown 3 ,
.Xr markdown 7 ,
.Xr mkd-extensions 7 ,
.Xr mmap 2 .
.Pp
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
.Sh BUGS
Error handling is minimal at best.