[erlkonig]

A while ago, I just wrote a filter to be able to paste markdown into a <name>.smd file, and an Apache filter to autoprocess them much like any other filter (and a <named>.smd.meta for title info and some other metadata).

This makes it super easy to write something cool on Reddit or whatever, then just paste the markdown into an index.smd file in a new directory (named meaningfully) and poof it's in a webpage.

The core of all of it is a /var/www/cgi-bin/markdown-to-html program centered on:

    python3 -m markdown -x codehilite -x fenced_code -x toc

It's enabled in my ~/www/.htaccess of all places:

  # This works, with setup in /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/mod-ext_filter-adds.conf
  AddType text/markdown .md
  AddType text/markdown .smd 
  AddOutputFilter markdown-to-html            md
  AddOutputFilter markdown-to-shtml;INCLUDES smd

Much easier to just edit markdown (index.smd usually) and reload than reconvert, and that filter above lets you include arbitrary HTML too, critical to deal with markdown numerous weaknesses.