It allows to create a table of contents and link them to the different titles of a Markdown document, without altering the original file and generating a new one.
The idea came up to automate this manual process, it was tedious to write and check that each title has its link and create the table of contents. Now I simply write the content, run the program and I have the finished document.
$ pip install linkedtext- Help
usage: linkedtext [-h] -f FILENAME
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FILENAME, --filename FILENAME
Markdown file.- In the terminal
$ linkedtext -f path/my_file.mdThe LinkedText class supports both Markdown files (markdown_file parameter) and strings in Markdown format (string parameter).
- Markdown file
When passing a Markdown file, it will be parsed and processed, generating a new file with the same name as the original and ending with _finish. The original file is never altered. Writing is automatic.
>>> from linkedtext import LinkedText
>>>
>>> c = LinkedText(markdown_file='my_file.md')
>>> c.process()
>>> c.to_write()- Markdown string
When a Markdown string is used, the result will be displayed in the terminal, it can be written to a file, this will be named linkedtext_finish.md by default.
>>> from linkedtext import LinkedText
>>>
>>> c = LinkedText(string=string_markdown)
>>> c.process()
>>> c.to_write()- String Markdown
string = """
# First
First paragraph.
## Second
Second paragraph.
# Third
Third paragraph.
# Fourth
Fourth paragraph.
"""
from linkedtext import LinkedText
c = LinkedText(string=string)
c.process()
# c.to_write() # write to the `linkedtext_finish.md` file.- Output
1. [First](#first)
1. [Second](#second)
2. [Third](#third)
3. [Fourth](#fourth)
\pagebreak
<a name="first"></a>
# First
First paragraph.
<a name="second"></a>
## Second
Second paragraph.
<a name="third"></a>
# Third
Third paragraph.
<a name="fourth"></a>
# Fourth
Fourth paragraph.
. run_tests.sh
# or
python -m unittest