(Note: CL-Markdown just split off it's Lisp documentation abilities into the docudown project. Don't be alarmed. Everything is good.)
Markdown is John Gruber's text markup langauge and the Perl program that converts documents written in that language into HTML. CL-Markdown is a Common Lisp rewrite of Markdown. CL-Markdown is licensed under the MIT license.
You can see the source of this page by clicking in the address bar of your browser and changing the extension from html
to text
. For example, this page's source is at index.text.
You can view a comparison of Markdown and CL-Markdown output here.
metabang.com is switching from darcs to git for source control; the current cl-markdown repository is on github and you can clone it using:
git clone git://github.com/gwkkwg/cl-markdown
(note that this won't let you build CL-Markdown unless you also get all of its dependencies which I should list but don't because I haven't found (er, made) the time to automate the process yet...)
The easiest way to get setup with CL-Markdown is by using QuickLisp or ASDF-Install (deprecated). If that doesn't float your boat, there is a handy gzipped tar file