Sparkdown

A new markup/markdown language for quickly taking notes.

Sparkdown is a C++ library and command-line executable that provides a simple, powerful, and easy-to-use API for transpiling notes into LaTeX code, which can then be compiled into a PDF.

Motivation:

Is LaTeX too verbose? Does markdown lack features?

Enter sparkdown, the new note-taking language. Sparkdown is the perfect blend of simple, easy, and feature-rich.

Features:

• Nested ordered and unordered lists.

• Math mode: display your formulas neatly!

• Verbatim mode: display code in a monospace text, with special characters and custom indentation supported.

• Italic and bold text.

• Arrows!

• All LaTeX code is valid in sparkdown.

Usage:

Usage: sparkdown <file> [OPTIONS]
  Options:
    -h, --help: 	    Print this help message.
    -v, --version:	  Print version information.
    -o, --output:	    Output file.
    -w, --overwrite:	Overwrite output file if it exists.

Syntax:

$title: Title
$author: Author
$date: Date

=============  % Border between optional metadata and content.

# Header.

## Sub-header.

### Sub-sub-header (etc.).

% Comment.

* List item.
  Can contain newlines for readability without
  creating an actual newline in the output document.
  \\ Create an actual newline like so.
  * Sub-list item (etc.).

  - Sub-list item.
    Line breaks for readability don't interrupt the flow
    of the bullet list.


1. Ordered list item.
  1. Sub-ordered list item (etc.).

* Unordered lists
  1. and sub-ordered lists
  2. can be used together.

\noindent *Italic text.*  % Notice how we can use LaTeX commands.

\indent **Bold text.**

\[
  y = mx + b
\]

\noindent -> Rightarrow.

\indent --> Rightarrow.

```
int verbatim_text()
{
  return 0;
}
```

Output: