Thoughts on lex/GNU Flex?

• re2c

  12 1,022 6.8 C

  Lexer generator for C, C++, Go and Rust.

Another quite common lexer generator to check is re2c.

• cmark

  10 1,571 8.7 C

  CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C

  

However, writing a proper markdown parser is quite difficult as you have to support nesting and many weird corner cases. So, if you do not need to write your own parser (e.g. for learning purposes), it would be a lot easier to use an existing parser and write a custom renderer for roff. Some such parsers are cmark, commonmark.js, and goldmark.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• lowdown

  2 287 8.2 C

  simple markdown translator

As somebody noted, lowdown outputs roff both as a library and a standalone utility. (I'm the author.) The actual roff bits (it handles -ms and -man, with the former optionally using -mspdf and the latter, groff extensions) are in nroff.c.

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