This document is a rough spec on what the provided uv2html tool does to convert unmarked vehical text to HTML

text blocks

paragraph

Consecutive lines of text are considered part of a single paragraph. If you want to start a new paragraph you'll need to have a stand-alone line

this is the first paragraph
this is part of the first paragraph

now this is the second paragraph
and so is this

this is the first paragraph this is part of the first paragraph

now this is the second paragraph and so is this

heading

There are 3 levels of heading available. Surround your heading with 3 or more pepetitions of "=-" (6 characters or more in total) followed by a new line for level 1 heading

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Heading 1
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Heading 1

Surround your heading with 6 or more "=" characters followed by a new line for level 2 heading

========================================================================
Heading 2
========================================================================

Heading 2

Surround your heading with 6 or more "-" characters followed by a new line for level 3 heading

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heading 3
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Heading 3

preformatted block

You may do your own pre-formatted ASCII art by surrounding your ASCII art with 2 or more consecutive "." characters both followed by a new line

........................................................................
I A  M   A   P    R     E      F       O        R
........................................................................

I A  M   A   P    R     E      F       O        R

quotes

You may put "> " which is a ">" character followed by a " " (whitespace) in front of a line to denote that it's a block quote. You may nest them.

> > did you hear that?
> I did

did you hear that?

I did

sample text/code

You may indent a line with four or 8 spaces or a tab to denote that it's a sample text/code block

	for (i = 0; i < 10; i ++) {
		printf("hello world");
	}

for (i = 0; i < 10; i ++) {
       	printf("hello world");
}

bullet lists

You may use " * " which is a whitespace followed by the "*" character followed by another whitespace to denote a bulleted item. You may use " 1. " which is a whitespace followed by a number followed by a "." character followed by another whitespace to denote a numbered item.

 * bullet 1
 * bullet 2
   1. number 1
   2. number 2
 * bullets can
   span multiple lines
   so long as they align

• bullet 1
• bullet 2
1. number 1
2. number 2
• bullets can span multiple lines so long as they align

text styling

emphasizing

__emphasized__

emphasized

bolding

*bold*

bold

subscript

H_(2)O

H₂O

superscript

X^(2)

X²

linking

autolinking

http://unmarked.sourceforge.net
mailto:someguy@somedomain.com

http://unmarked.sourceforge.net someguy@somedomain.com

image

http://images.sourceforge.net/images/head_bg_new2.gif?width=200&height=52#some+text

footnotes

[this is a link][1]

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[1] http://unmarked.sourceforge.net    - this is some text

this is a link

misc

horizontal rule

- - - - - - - - -

escaping

all escapes are done using whitespaces

__escaped emphasis__

*escaped bold*