md2letter

Markdown to Letter script converter. Write your documents in Markdown and let Letter do the heavy lifting of laying out the document and optionally creating a PDF.

Example

cd cli
cargo run -- example.md

Output (in Letter script format - not HTML!):

<heading>
    This is a title
</heading>
<paragraph>
    Here is a simple paragraph with
    <b>
        some
        <i>
            formatting
        </i>
    </b>
    .
</paragraph>
<section>
    <heading>
        This is a subtitle
    </heading>
    <list>
        <list-item>
            Item A
        </list-item>
        <list-item>
            Item B
        </list-item>
        <list ordered="true">
            <list-item>
                Hello
            </list-item>
            <list-item>
                World
            </list-item>
        </list>
        <list-item>
            Item C
        </list-item>
    </list>
    <code language="js">
        console.log('Hello World');
    </code>
</section>

Support

Currently we support the following Markdown features:

• Headings
• Paragraphs
• Mixed bold and italic formatting
• Code blocks (with language modifier) and inline code
• Lists (ordered and unordered) - nesting supported
• Quote blocks
• Horizontal rules
• Links
• Images
• Tables
• Letter functions - as block or inline - (e. g. #break or #image(width: 100px, height: 100px, src: image.png))

The output format is currently the Letter script format only. For more details check the Letter repository here.

Parser pipeline