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3 # markdown2html.py — simple Markdown-to-HTML converter for use with Mutt
5 # Mutt recently learnt [how to compose `multipart/alternative`
6 # emails][1]. This script assumes a message has been composed using Markdown
7 # (with a lot of pandoc extensions enabled), and translates it to `text/html`
8 # for Mutt to tie into such a `multipart/alternative` message.
10 # [1]: https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/commit/0e566a03725b4ad789aa6ac1d17cdf7bf4e7e354)
14 # set send_multipart_alternative=yes
15 # set send_multipart_alternative_filter=/path/to/markdown2html.py
17 # Optionally, Custom CSS styles will be read from `~/.mutt/markdown2html.css`,
22 # - PyPandoc (and pandoc installed, or downloaded)
26 # - Pygments, if installed, then syntax highlighting is enabled
29 # https://git.madduck.net/etc/mutt.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/.mutt/markdown2html
31 # Copyright © 2019 martin f. krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
32 # Released under the GPL-2+ licence, just like Mutt itself.
42 from pygments.formatters import get_formatter_by_name
43 formatter = get_formatter_by_name('html', style='default')
44 DEFAULT_CSS = formatter.get_style_defs('.sourceCode')
54 border-left: 2px solid #eee;
60 border-left: 2px solid #666;
68 .quotechar { display: none; }
69 .footnote-ref, .footnote-back { text-decoration: none;}
72 font-family: monospace;
78 border-collapse: collapse;
79 border: 1px solid #999;
81 th, td { padding: 0.5em; }
85 .even { background: #eee; }
86 h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
88 background-color: #eee;
91 h1 { font-size: 130%; }
92 h2 { font-size: 120%; }
93 h3 { font-size: 110%; }
94 h4 { font-size: 107%; }
95 h5 { font-size: 103%; }
96 h6 { font-size: 100%; }
97 p { padding: 0 0.5em; }
100 STYLESHEET = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~/.mutt'),
102 if os.path.exists(STYLESHEET):
103 DEFAULT_CSS += open(STYLESHEET).read()
105 HTML_DOCUMENT = '''<!DOCTYPE html>
107 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
108 <meta charset="utf-8"/>
109 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"/>
110 </head><body class="email">
116 '<div class="signature"><span class="leader">-- </span>{sig}</div>'
119 def _preprocess_markdown(mdwn):
121 Preprocess Markdown for handling by the converter.
123 # convert hard line breaks within paragraphs to 2 trailing spaces, which
124 # is the markdown way of representing hard line breaks. Note how the
125 # regexp will not match between paragraphs.
126 ret = re.sub(r'(\S)\n(\s*\S)', r'\g<1> \n\g<2>', mdwn, flags=re.MULTILINE)
128 # Clients like Thunderbird need the leading '>' to be able to properly
129 # create nested quotes, so we duplicate the symbol, the first instance
130 # will tell pandoc to create a blockquote, while the second instance will
131 # be a <span> containing the character, along with a class that causes CSS
132 # to actually hide it from display. However, this does not work with the
133 # text-mode HTML2text converters, and so it's left commented for now.
134 #ret = re.sub(r'\n>', r' \n>[>]{.quotechar}', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
136 # With the autolink_bare_uris extension, we do not need to put links into
137 # angle brackets to have them converted, so let's conserve the brackets
138 # when used around email addresses. Note that this needs a postprocessing
139 # hack because the pandoc autolink converted includes the ambersand
140 # (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398).
141 ret = re.sub(r'<([^@]+@.+\.[^>]+)>', r'<\g<1> -PANDOC_BUG_7398->', ret)
146 def _identify_quotes_for_later(mdwn):
148 Email quoting such as:
151 On 1970-01-01, you said:
152 > The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
155 isn't really properly handled by Markdown, so let's do our best to
156 identify the individual elements, and mark them, using a syntax similar to
157 what pandoc uses already in some cases. As pandoc won't actually use these
158 data (yet?), we call `self._reformat_quotes` later to use these markers
159 to slap the appropriate classes on the HTML tags.
162 def generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
164 Iterates the input string line-wise, returning a triplet of
165 previous, current, and next line, the first and last of which
166 will be None on the first and last line of the input data
169 prev = cur = nxt = None
170 lines = iter(mdwn.splitlines())
176 yield prev, cur, None
179 for prev, cur, nxt in generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
181 # The lead-in to a quote is a single line immediately preceding the
182 # quote, and ending with ':'. Note that there could be multiple of
184 if re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', cur) and nxt.startswith('>'):
185 ret.append(f'{{.quotelead}}{cur.strip()}')
186 # pandoc needs an empty line before the blockquote, so
187 # we enter one for the purpose of HTML rendition:
191 # The first blockquote after such a lead-in gets marked as the
193 elif prev and re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', prev) and cur.startswith('>'):
194 ret.append(re.sub(r'^(\s*>\s*)+(.+)',
195 r'\g<1>{.quoteinitial}\g<2>',
196 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
198 # All other occurrences of blockquotes get the "subsequent" marker:
199 elif cur.startswith('>') and prev and not prev.startswith('>'):
200 ret.append(re.sub(r'^((?:\s*>\s*)+)(.+)',
201 r'\g<1>{.quotesubsequent}\g<2>',
202 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
204 else: # pass through everything else.
207 return '\n'.join(ret)
210 def _reformat_quotes(html):
212 Earlier in the pipeline, we marked email quoting, using markers, which we
213 now need to turn into HTML classes, so that we can use CSS to style them.
215 ret = html.replace('<p>{.quotelead}', '<p class="quotelead">')
216 ret = re.sub(r'<blockquote>\n((?:<blockquote>\n)*)<p>(?:\{\.quote(\w+)\})',
217 r'<blockquote class="quote \g<2>">\n\g<1><p>', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
222 def _convert_with_pandoc(mdwn, inputfmt='markdown', outputfmt='html5',
223 ext_enabled=None, ext_disabled=None,
224 standalone=True, selfcontained=True, title=None):
226 Invoke pandoc to do the actual conversion of Markdown to HTML5.
229 ext_enabled = [ 'backtick_code_blocks',
240 'all_symbols_escapable',
241 'intraword_underscores',
250 'tex_math_double_backslash',
254 ext_disabled = [ 'tex_math_single_backslash',
260 enabled = '+'.join(ext_enabled)
261 disabled = '-'.join(ext_disabled)
262 inputfmt = f'{inputfmt}+{enabled}-{disabled}'
266 args.append('--standalone')
268 args.append('--self-contained')
270 args.append(f'--metadata=pagetitle:"{title}"')
272 return pypandoc.convert_text(mdwn, format=inputfmt, to=outputfmt,
276 def _apply_styling(html):
278 Inline all styles defined and used into the individual HTML tags.
280 return pynliner.Pynliner().from_string(html).with_cssString(DEFAULT_CSS).run()
283 def _postprocess_html(html):
285 Postprocess the generated and styled HTML.
288 # Preprocessing leaves a sentinel to work around
289 # https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398, and so we need to remove it:
290 html = html.replace('</a> -PANDOC_BUG_7398->', '</a>>')
294 def convert_markdown_to_html(mdwn):
296 Converts the input Markdown to HTML, handling separately the body, as well
297 as an optional signature.
299 parts = re.split(r'^-- $', mdwn, 1, flags=re.MULTILINE)
308 body = _preprocess_markdown(body)
309 body = _identify_quotes_for_later(body)
310 html = _convert_with_pandoc(body, standalone=True, selfcontained=True)
311 html = _reformat_quotes(html)
314 sig = _preprocess_markdown(sig)
315 html += SIGNATURE_HTML.format(sig='<br/>'.join(sig.splitlines()))
317 html = HTML_DOCUMENT.format(htmlbody=html)
318 html = _apply_styling(html)
319 html = _postprocess_html(html)
326 Convert text on stdin to HTML, and print it to stdout, like mutt would
329 html = convert_markdown_to_html(sys.stdin.read())
331 # mutt expects the content type in the first line, so:
332 print(f'text/html\n\n{html}')
335 if __name__ == '__main__':