### What it is
(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][df]'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][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](index.text).
You can view a comparison of Markdown and CL-Markdown output
[here][8].
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### Mailing Lists
* [devel-list][]: A list for questions, patches, bug
reports, and so on; It's for everything other than
announcements.
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### Where is it
metabang.com is switching from [darcs][] to [git][]
for source control; the current cl-markdown repository is on
[github][github-cl-markdown] 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][14] (deprecated). If that
doesn't float your boat, there is a handy [gzipped tar
file][15]
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### What is happening
8 January 2011
Moved to github. Very minor cleanup.
28 May 2008
Many small improvements, bug fixes, tweaks, and
extensions. The biggest change, however, is that I've
move the Lisp documentation work into it's own
[project][docudown]. This keeps CL-Markdown simpler.
The dependencies on [moptilities][] and
[defsystem-compatibility][] have both been removed.
A dependency on [anaphora][clnet-anaphora] has been added.
30 August 2007
Tons of improvements in the documentation extension, lots of
cleanup, better HTML generation, better footnotes, what's not to like!
20 Feb 2007
Lots of stuff has happened; see the change log for details.
5 June 2006
More tweaking of block structure processing and paragraph marking. In every day and in every way, it's getting better and better.
22 May 2006
Removed LML2 dependency for CL-Markdown and fixed some bugs!
17 May 2006
Updated with SBCL and Allegro support (son far only alisp)