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by wernsey 1603 days ago
Wow, I've bookmarked this.

I also wrote an Markdown to HTML converter in Awk once, though my purpose was to convert marked down comments in source code to documentation. I started with an Awk script to extract the comments and then systematically added markdown features. My end result isn't very elegant though.

https://github.com/wernsey/d.awk/blob/master/d.awk