<h1>MoonShine</h1>
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<p>A .NET wrapper for (with win32 port of) <a href="https://github.com/tanoku/sundown">sundown</a>, the <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown">markdown</a> library</p>
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<p>libsundown.dll (included) is required for linkage. Also included is a simple console app for executing upskirt against markdown files.</p>

<p>MoonShine is at least 20x faster than <a href="http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/">MarkdownSharp</a> when run against MarkdownSharp's own benchmark app.</p>

<p><img src="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0ArwgxSsSwOykdFQyam5kb1JNSGdBbXVFN2hxVjZqdWc&amp;oid=1&amp;zx=ux34vk7qqqf1" alt="MarkdownSharp vs. MoonShine">
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<pre><code>MarkdownSharp v1.13 benchmark, takes 10 ~ 30 seconds...

input string length: 475
4000 iterations in 2318 ms (0.5795 ms per iteration)
input string length: 2356
1000 iterations in 2396 ms (2.396 ms per iteration)
input string length: 27737
100 iterations in 2528 ms (25.28 ms per iteration)
input string length: 11075
1 iteration in 12 ms
input string length: 88607
1 iteration in 103 ms
input string length: 354431
1 iteration in 380 ms
Benchmark completed in 7.752s


MoonShine v1.14.2 benchmark, takes 10 ~ 30 seconds...

input string length: 475
4000 iterations in 162 ms (0.0405 ms per iteration)
input string length: 2356
1000 iterations in 77 ms (0.077 ms per iteration)
input string length: 27737
100 iterations in 69 ms (0.69 ms per iteration)
input string length: 11075
1 iteration in 0 ms
input string length: 88607
1 iteration in 2 ms
input string length: 354431
1 iteration in 10 ms
Benchmark completed in 0.333s
</code></pre>

<h1>Usage</h1>

<pre><code>string html = Sundown.MoonShine.Markdownify(input);
</code></pre>

<p>Or if you don't want <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/">smartypants</a> character encoding:</p>

<pre><code>string html = Sundown.MoonShine.Markdownify(input, false);
</code></pre>

<h1>Thank You to Contributors</h1>

<p><a href="https://github.com/jbevain">jbevain</a>: Markdown extensions</p>