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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)
139 def _identify_quotes_for_later(mdwn):
141 Email quoting such as:
144 On 1970-01-01, you said:
145 > The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
148 isn't really properly handled by Markdown, so let's do our best to
149 identify the individual elements, and mark them, using a syntax similar to
150 what pandoc uses already in some cases. As pandoc won't actually use these
151 data (yet?), we call `self._reformat_quotes` later to use these markers
152 to slap the appropriate classes on the HTML tags.
155 def generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
157 Iterates the input string line-wise, returning a triplet of
158 previous, current, and next line, the first and last of which
159 will be None on the first and last line of the input data
162 prev = cur = nxt = None
163 lines = iter(mdwn.splitlines())
169 yield prev, cur, None
172 for prev, cur, nxt in generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
174 # The lead-in to a quote is a single line immediately preceding the
175 # quote, and ending with ':'. Note that there could be multiple of
177 if re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', cur) and nxt.startswith('>'):
178 ret.append(f'{{.quotelead}}{cur.strip()}')
179 # pandoc needs an empty line before the blockquote, so
180 # we enter one for the purpose of HTML rendition:
184 # The first blockquote after such a lead-in gets marked as the
186 elif prev and re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', prev) and cur.startswith('>'):
187 ret.append(re.sub(r'^(\s*>\s*)+(.+)',
188 r'\g<1>{.quoteinitial}\g<2>',
189 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
191 # All other occurrences of blockquotes get the "subsequent" marker:
192 elif cur.startswith('>') and prev and not prev.startswith('>'):
193 ret.append(re.sub(r'^((?:\s*>\s*)+)(.+)',
194 r'\g<1>{.quotesubsequent}\g<2>',
195 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
197 else: # pass through everything else.
200 return '\n'.join(ret)
203 def _reformat_quotes(html):
205 Earlier in the pipeline, we marked email quoting, using markers, which we
206 now need to turn into HTML classes, so that we can use CSS to style them.
208 ret = html.replace('<p>{.quotelead}', '<p class="quotelead">')
209 ret = re.sub(r'<blockquote>\n((?:<blockquote>\n)*)<p>(?:\{\.quote(\w+)\})',
210 r'<blockquote class="quote \g<2>">\n\g<1><p>', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
215 def _convert_with_pandoc(mdwn, inputfmt='markdown', outputfmt='html5',
216 ext_enabled=None, ext_disabled=None,
217 standalone=True, title="HTML E-Mail"):
219 Invoke pandoc to do the actual conversion of Markdown to HTML5.
222 ext_enabled = [ 'backtick_code_blocks',
233 'all_symbols_escapable',
234 'intraword_underscores',
243 'tex_math_double_backslash',
247 ext_disabled = [ 'tex_math_single_backslash',
253 enabled = '+'.join(ext_enabled)
254 disabled = '-'.join(ext_disabled)
255 inputfmt = f'{inputfmt}+{enabled}-{disabled}'
259 args.append('--standalone')
261 args.append(f'--metadata=pagetitle:"{title}"')
263 return pypandoc.convert_text(mdwn, format=inputfmt, to=outputfmt,
267 def _apply_styling(html):
269 Inline all styles defined and used into the individual HTML tags.
271 return pynliner.Pynliner().from_string(html).with_cssString(DEFAULT_CSS).run()
274 def _postprocess_html(html):
276 Postprocess the generated and styled HTML.
281 def convert_markdown_to_html(mdwn):
283 Converts the input Markdown to HTML, handling separately the body, as well
284 as an optional signature.
286 parts = re.split(r'^-- $', mdwn, 1, flags=re.MULTILINE)
295 body = _preprocess_markdown(body)
296 body = _identify_quotes_for_later(body)
297 html = _convert_with_pandoc(body, standalone=False)
298 html = _reformat_quotes(html)
301 sig = _preprocess_markdown(sig)
302 html += SIGNATURE_HTML.format(sig='<br/>'.join(sig.splitlines()))
304 html = HTML_DOCUMENT.format(htmlbody=html)
305 html = _apply_styling(html)
306 html = _postprocess_html(html)
313 Convert text on stdin to HTML, and print it to stdout, like mutt would
316 html = convert_markdown_to_html(sys.stdin.read())
318 # mutt expects the content type in the first line, so:
319 print(f'text/html\n\n{html}')
322 if __name__ == '__main__':