A way to render/watch/live multiple markdown documents would be nice. Ideally links to other local markdown documents should open them rendered, as they are in Github.

Watch and single mode:

The given solution would be an -r, --recursive flag, which converts all .md files in a directory and also rewrites local .md links. Aggregate a list of the paths to enable --watch to track them.

This would also necessitate codifying that <file>.md in converted into <file>.html (modifiable via -o?), so that link rewriting is predictably correct (if the linked .md existed to begin with).

Live mode:

The best way is probably unrelated to how watch and single mode are done, since the conversion of each file is isolated and the renaming predictable.

When the server gets a request for a path matching the conversion pattern (ends in .html) we:

• reverse the file renaming (.html -> .md),
• open that original file (on failure, fallback to the serve_static_file for original requested path),
• convert,
• return with file change watching for that file.

Hi, I'd love to use your project as a dependency for a tool I'm planning.

Could you please add an example of how to use it to convert Markdown String into HTML String?

Gave marky a plug here :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36845714

i know there must be a reason you din't

but i would love to see pre-build binary so i dont need to install rust
and also package manger as scoop and homebrew support too

When I have a markdown file input.md with the following contents:

![](https://fastly.picsum.photos/id/237/536/354.jpg)

And I run the following command:

marky input.md --include-images 'remote'

I get the following error:

thread 'main' panicked at 'Cannot drop a runtime in a context where blocking is not allowed. This happens when a runtime is dropped from within an asynchronous context.', /Users/jmscdch/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/tokio-1.26.0/src/runtime/blocking/shutdown.rs:51:21
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Expected behavior would be that the image gets downloaded, converted to base64 and embedded in the HTML file.