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6 cmark - convert CommonMark formatted text to HTML
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9 cmark [options] file*
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12 cmark converts Markdown formatted plain text to either HTML, groff man,
13 CommonMark XML, LaTeX, or CommonMark, using the conventions described
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18 --to, -t FORMAT
19 Specify output format (html, man, xml, latex, commonmark).
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21 --width WIDTH
22 Specify a column width to which to wrap the output. For no
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27 --hardbreaks
28 Render soft breaks (newlines inside paragraphs in the Com‐
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34 --nobreaks Render soft breaks as spaces. If this option is specified,
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38 --sourcepos Include source position attribute.
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40 --normalize Consolidate adjacent text nodes.
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42 --validate-utf8
43 Validate UTF-8, replacing illegal sequences with U+FFFD.
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45 --smart Use smart punctuation. Straight double and single quotes
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50 --safe Do not render raw HTML or potentially dangerous URLs. (Raw
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57 --help Print usage information.
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62 John MacFarlane, Vicent Marti, Kārlis Gaņģis, Nick Wellnhofer.
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65 CommonMark spec: http://spec.commonmark.org.
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