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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')
55 border-left: 2px solid #666;
63 .quotechar { display: none; }
64 .footnote-ref, .footnote-back { text-decoration: none;}
67 font-family: monospace;
73 border-collapse: collapse;
74 border: 1px solid #999;
76 th, td { padding: 0.5em; }
80 .even { background: #eee; }
83 STYLESHEET = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~/.mutt'),
85 if os.path.exists(STYLESHEET):
86 DEFAULT_CSS += open(STYLESHEET).read()
88 HTML_DOCUMENT = '''<!DOCTYPE html>
90 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
91 <meta charset="utf-8"/>
92 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"/>
93 <title>HTML E-Mail</title>
94 </head><body class="email">
100 '<div class="signature"><span class="leader">-- </span>{sig}</div>'
103 def _preprocess_markdown(mdwn):
105 Preprocess Markdown for handling by the converter.
107 # convert hard line breaks within paragraphs to 2 trailing spaces, which
108 # is the markdown way of representing hard line breaks. Note how the
109 # regexp will not match between paragraphs.
110 ret = re.sub(r'(\S)\n(\s*\S)', r'\g<1> \n\g<2>', mdwn, flags=re.MULTILINE)
112 # Clients like Thunderbird need the leading '>' to be able to properly
113 # create nested quotes, so we duplicate the symbol, the first instance
114 # will tell pandoc to create a blockquote, while the second instance will
115 # be a <span> containing the character, along with a class that causes CSS
116 # to actually hide it from display. However, this does not work with the
117 # text-mode HTML2text converters, and so it's left commented for now.
118 #ret = re.sub(r'\n>', r' \n>[>]{.quotechar}', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
123 def _identify_quotes_for_later(mdwn):
125 Email quoting such as:
128 On 1970-01-01, you said:
129 > The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe.
132 isn't really properly handled by Markdown, so let's do our best to
133 identify the individual elements, and mark them, using a syntax similar to
134 what pandoc uses already in some cases. As pandoc won't actually use these
135 data (yet?), we call `self._reformat_quotes` later to use these markers
136 to slap the appropriate classes on the HTML tags.
139 def generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
141 Iterates the input string line-wise, returning a triplet of
142 previous, current, and next line, the first and last of which
143 will be None on the first and last line of the input data
146 prev = cur = nxt = None
147 lines = iter(mdwn.splitlines())
153 yield prev, cur, None
156 for prev, cur, nxt in generate_lines_with_context(mdwn):
158 # The lead-in to a quote is a single line immediately preceding the
159 # quote, and ending with ':'. Note that there could be multiple of
161 if re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', cur) and nxt.startswith('>'):
162 ret.append(f'{{.quotelead}}{cur.strip()}')
163 # pandoc needs an empty line before the blockquote, so
164 # we enter one for the purpose of HTML rendition:
168 # The first blockquote after such a lead-in gets marked as the
170 elif prev and re.match(r'^.+:\s*$', prev) and cur.startswith('>'):
171 ret.append(re.sub(r'^(\s*>\s*)+(.+)',
172 r'\g<1>{.quoteinitial}\g<2>',
173 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
175 # All other occurrences of blockquotes get the "subsequent" marker:
176 elif cur.startswith('>') and prev and not prev.startswith('>'):
177 ret.append(re.sub(r'^((?:\s*>\s*)+)(.+)',
178 r'\g<1>{.quotesubsequent}\g<2>',
179 cur, flags=re.MULTILINE))
181 else: # pass through everything else.
184 return '\n'.join(ret)
187 def _reformat_quotes(html):
189 Earlier in the pipeline, we marked email quoting, using markers, which we
190 now need to turn into HTML classes, so that we can use CSS to style them.
192 ret = html.replace('<p>{.quotelead}', '<p class="quotelead">')
193 ret = re.sub(r'<blockquote>\n((?:<blockquote>\n)*)<p>(?:\{\.quote(\w+)\})',
194 r'<blockquote class="quote \g<2>">\n\g<1><p>', ret, flags=re.MULTILINE)
199 def _convert_with_pandoc(mdwn, inputfmt='markdown', outputfmt='html5',
200 ext_enabled=None, ext_disabled=None,
201 standalone=True, title="HTML E-Mail"):
203 Invoke pandoc to do the actual conversion of Markdown to HTML5.
206 ext_enabled = [ 'backtick_code_blocks',
217 'all_symbols_escapable',
218 'intraword_underscores',
227 'tex_math_double_backslash',
231 ext_disabled = [ 'tex_math_single_backslash',
237 enabled = '+'.join(ext_enabled)
238 disabled = '-'.join(ext_disabled)
239 inputfmt = f'{inputfmt}+{enabled}-{disabled}'
243 args.append('--standalone')
245 args.append(f'--metadata=pagetitle:"{title}"')
247 return pypandoc.convert_text(mdwn, format=inputfmt, to=outputfmt,
251 def _apply_styling(html):
253 Inline all styles defined and used into the individual HTML tags.
255 return pynliner.Pynliner().from_string(html).with_cssString(DEFAULT_CSS).run()
258 def _postprocess_html(html):
260 Postprocess the generated and styled HTML.
265 def convert_markdown_to_html(mdwn):
267 Converts the input Markdown to HTML, handling separately the body, as well
268 as an optional signature.
270 parts = re.split(r'^-- $', mdwn, 1, flags=re.MULTILINE)
279 body = _preprocess_markdown(body)
280 body = _identify_quotes_for_later(body)
281 html = _convert_with_pandoc(body, standalone=False)
282 html = _reformat_quotes(html)
285 sig = _preprocess_markdown(sig)
286 html += SIGNATURE_HTML.format(sig='<br/>'.join(sig.splitlines()))
288 html = HTML_DOCUMENT.format(htmlbody=html)
289 html = _apply_styling(html)
290 html = _postprocess_html(html)
297 Convert text on stdin to HTML, and print it to stdout, like mutt would
300 html = convert_markdown_to_html(sys.stdin.read())
302 # mutt expects the content type in the first line, so:
303 print(f'text/html\n\n{html}')
306 if __name__ == '__main__':