Huge thank you to the OG Markdown.pl script at daringfireball.net. That was the first script I found to actually convert markdown into a simple HTML document.
But the biggest thanks goes to Peter Melnichenko and Niklas Frykholm for converting that Perl script into pure Lua. I'm so glad they already did that because I am:
- Not comfortable in regular expressions and
- Do not know Perl.
Lua also apparently has a very simple regex engine which makes the conversion from Perl's advanced and flexible regex difficult. Again, I cannot thank these two developers enough.
I would like to thank Steve Losh's Learning Vimscript the Hard Way for convincing me to use Lua. Which after I found the Lua port of the Perl script turned out to be a great decision.