// Package blackfriday is a markdown processor. // // It translates plain text with simple formatting rules into an AST, which can // then be further processed to HTML (provided by Blackfriday itself) or other // formats (provided by the community). // // The simplest way to invoke Blackfriday is to call the Run function. It will // take a text input and produce a text output in HTML (or other format). // // A slightly more sophisticated way to use Blackfriday is to create a Markdown // processor and to call Parse, which returns a syntax tree for the input // document. You can leverage Blackfriday's parsing for content extraction from // markdown documents. You can assign a custom renderer and set various options // to the Markdown processor. // // If you're interested in calling Blackfriday from command line, see // https://github.com/russross/blackfriday-tool. // // Sanitized Anchor Names // // Blackfriday includes an algorithm for creating sanitized anchor names // corresponding to a given input text. This algorithm is used to create // anchors for headings when AutoHeadingIDs extension is enabled. The // algorithm is specified below, so that other packages can create // compatible anchor names and links to those anchors. // // The algorithm iterates over the input text, interpreted as UTF-8, // one Unicode code point (rune) at a time. All runes that are letters (category L) // or numbers (category N) are considered valid characters. They are mapped to // lower case, and included in the output. All other runes are considered // invalid characters. Invalid characters that precede the first valid character, // as well as invalid character that follow the last valid character // are dropped completely. All other sequences of invalid characters // between two valid characters are replaced with a single dash character '-'. // // SanitizedAnchorName exposes this functionality, and can be used to // create compatible links to the anchor names generated by blackfriday. // This algorithm is also implemented in a small standalone package at // github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name. It can be useful for clients // that want a small package and don't need full functionality of blackfriday. package blackfriday // NOTE: Keep Sanitized Anchor Name algorithm in sync with package // github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name. // Otherwise, users of sanitized_anchor_name will get anchor names // that are incompatible with those generated by blackfriday.