= BlueCloth 2 BlueCloth is a Ruby implementation of John Gruber's Markdown[http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/], a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. To quote from the project page: Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). It borrows a naming convention and several helpings of interface from Redcloth[http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/], {Why the Lucky Stiff}[http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/] 's processor for a similar text-to-HTML conversion syntax called Textile[http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/]. BlueCloth 2 is a complete rewrite using David Parsons' Discount library, a C implementation of Markdown. I rewrote it using the extension for speed and accuracy; the original BlueCloth was a straight port from the Perl version that I wrote in a few days for my own use just to avoid having to shell out to Markdown.pl, and it was quite buggy and slow. I apologize to all the good people that sent me patches for it that were never released. == Authors * Michael Granger (ged@FaerieMUD.org) == Contributors * Martin Chase * Florian Gross This product includes software developed by David Loren Parsons . == Installation If you use RubyGems, you can install it via: $ sudo gem install bluecloth You can also install as a site library via the Rakefile: $ wget http://deveiate.org/code/bluecloth-x.y.z.tar.gz $ tar xzvf bluecloth-x.y.z.tar.gz $ cd bluecloth-x.y.z $ sudo rake install == Source You can check out the current development source with Subversion from the following URL: svn://deveiate.org/BlueCloth/trunk You can report bugs, suggest improvements, or check on development activity at the project page: http://deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth/ == License See the LICENSE file included with the distribution for licensing and copyright details. The licensing terms of Discount are described in the LICENSE.discount file, also included with the distribution.