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Description:
Text-to-HTML conversion tool

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: markdown html text-processing cli converter

Install: brew install markdown

About:
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. It allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid HTML. It is a lightweight and fast command-line utility ideal for generating static web content.

Key Features:

Converts plain text to valid HTML
Supports inline HTML and simple text formatting
Fast and lightweight command-line interface
Supports links, images, and lists

Use Cases:

Generating HTML for static blogs or websites
Converting documentation files to web pages
Quickly formatting text for email or web publishing

Alternatives:

pandoc – Supports many more input/output formats but is heavier
commonmark – A strongly defined, highly compatible implementation of Markdown

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Aug 3, 2024 4:14pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a995f2f7