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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_signature(sig):
121 Preprocess the signature before markdown processing.
125 def _preprocess_markdown(mdwn):
127 Preprocess Markdown for handling by the converter.
129 # convert hard line breaks within paragraphs to 2 trailing spaces, which
130 # is the markdown way of representing hard line breaks. Note how the
131 # regexp will not match between paragraphs.
132 ret = re.sub(r'(\S)\n(\s*\S)', r'\g<1> \n\g<2>', mdwn, flags=re.MULTILINE)
134 # Clients like Thunderbird need the leading '>' to be able to properly
135 # create nested quotes, so we duplicate the symbol, the first instance
136 # will tell pandoc to create a blockquote, while the second instance will
137 # be a <span> containing the character, along with a class that causes CSS
138 # to actually hide it from display. However, this does not work with the
139 # text-mode HTML2text converters, and so it's left commented for now.
140 #ret = re.sub(r'\n>', r' \n>[>]{.quotechar}', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
142 # With the autolink_bare_uris extension, we do not need to put links into
143 # angle brackets to have them converted, so let's conserve the brackets
144 # when used around email addresses. Note that this needs a postprocessing
145 # hack because the pandoc autolink converted includes the ambersand
146 # (https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398).
147 ret = re.sub(r'<([^@]+@.+\.[^>]+)>', r'<\g<1> -PANDOC_BUG_7398->', ret)
152 def _identify_quotes_for_later(mdwn):
154 Email quoting such as:
157 On 1970-01-01, you said:
158 > The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
161 isn't really properly handled by Markdown, so let's do our best to
162 identify the individual elements, and mark them, using a syntax similar to
163 what pandoc uses already in some cases. As pandoc won't actually use these
164 data (yet?), we call `self._reformat_quotes` later to use these markers
165 to slap the appropriate classes on the HTML tags.
168 def generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
170 Iterates the input string line-wise, returning a triplet of
171 previous, current, and next line, the first and last of which
172 will be None on the first and last line of the input data
175 prev = cur = nxt = None
176 lines = iter(mdwn.splitlines())
182 yield prev, cur, None
185 for prev, cur, nxt in generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
187 # The lead-in to a quote is a single line immediately preceding the
188 # quote, and ending with ':'. Note that there could be multiple of
190 if re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', cur) and nxt.startswith('>'):
191 ret.append(f'{{.quotelead}}{cur.strip()}')
192 # pandoc needs an empty line before the blockquote, so
193 # we enter one for the purpose of HTML rendition:
197 # The first blockquote after such a lead-in gets marked as the
199 elif prev and re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', prev) and cur.startswith('>'):
200 ret.append(re.sub(r'^(\s*>\s*)+(.+)',
201 r'\g<1>{.quoteinitial}\g<2>',
202 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
204 # All other occurrences of blockquotes get the "subsequent" marker:
205 elif cur.startswith('>') and prev and not prev.startswith('>'):
206 ret.append(re.sub(r'^((?:\s*>\s*)+)(.+)',
207 r'\g<1>{.quotesubsequent}\g<2>',
208 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
210 else: # pass through everything else.
213 return '\n'.join(ret)
216 def _reformat_quotes(html):
218 Earlier in the pipeline, we marked email quoting, using markers, which we
219 now need to turn into HTML classes, so that we can use CSS to style them.
221 ret = html.replace('<p>{.quotelead}', '<p class="quotelead">')
222 ret = re.sub(r'<blockquote>\n((?:<blockquote>\n)*)<p>(?:\{\.quote(\w+)\})',
223 r'<blockquote class="quote \g<2>">\n\g<1><p>', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
228 def _convert_with_pandoc(mdwn, inputfmt='markdown', outputfmt='html5',
229 ext_enabled=None, ext_disabled=None,
230 standalone=True, selfcontained=True, title=None):
232 Invoke pandoc to do the actual conversion of Markdown to HTML5.
235 ext_enabled = [ 'backtick_code_blocks',
246 'all_symbols_escapable',
247 'intraword_underscores',
256 'tex_math_double_backslash',
260 ext_disabled = [ 'tex_math_single_backslash',
266 enabled = '+'.join(ext_enabled)
267 disabled = '-'.join(ext_disabled)
268 inputfmt = f'{inputfmt}+{enabled}-{disabled}'
272 args.append('--standalone')
274 args.append('--self-contained')
276 args.append(f'--metadata=pagetitle:"{title}"')
278 return pypandoc.convert_text(mdwn, format=inputfmt, to=outputfmt,
282 def _apply_styling(html):
284 Inline all styles defined and used into the individual HTML tags.
286 return pynliner.Pynliner().from_string(html).with_cssString(DEFAULT_CSS).run()
289 def _postprocess_html(html):
291 Postprocess the generated and styled HTML.
294 # Preprocessing leaves a sentinel to work around
295 # https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7398, and so we need to remove it:
296 html = html.replace('</a> -PANDOC_BUG_7398->', '</a>>')
300 def convert_markdown_to_html(mdwn):
302 Converts the input Markdown to HTML, handling separately the body, as well
303 as an optional signature.
305 parts = re.split(r'^-- $', mdwn, 1, flags=re.MULTILINE)
314 body = _preprocess_markdown(body)
315 body = _identify_quotes_for_later(body)
316 html = _convert_with_pandoc(body, standalone=True, selfcontained=True)
317 html = _reformat_quotes(html)
320 sig = _preprocess_signature(sig)
321 sig = _preprocess_markdown(sig)
322 sig = _convert_with_pandoc(sig, standalone=False, selfcontained=False)
323 sig = SIGNATURE_HTML.format(sig='<br/>'.join(sig.splitlines()))
324 eob = html.find('</body>')
325 html = f'{html[:eob]}{sig}\n{html[eob:]}'
327 html = HTML_DOCUMENT.format(htmlbody=html)
328 html = _apply_styling(html)
329 html = _postprocess_html(html)
336 Convert text on stdin to HTML, and print it to stdout, like mutt would
339 html = convert_markdown_to_html(sys.stdin.read())
341 # mutt expects the content type in the first line, so:
342 print(f'text/html\n\n{html}')
345 if __name__ == '__main__':