Mau v3

Mau is a lightweight markup language heavily inspired by AsciiDoc, Asciidoctor and Markdown.

As I wasn't satisfied by the results I got with those tools I decided to try to write my own language and the tool to render it.

I am currently using Mau to render posts on my blog The Digital Cat and the online version of my book "Clean Architectures in Python". I also used it to transpile the code of the book to Markua, to be able to publish the book on Leanpub using their toolchain.

Quick start

To install Mau use pip

pip install mau

Then install at least one visitor plugin. You probably want to start with mau-html-visitor

pip install mau-html-visitor

To convert Mau sources into HTML just run

mau -i source.mau -o destination.html -f html

To use Mau in your tool you can run it programmatically

from mau import Mau, load_visitors

visitor_classes = load_visitors()

visitors = {i.format_code: i for i in visitor_classes}
visitor_class = visitors["html"]

mau = Mau(
    "path/of/the/source",
    visitor_class=visitor_class,
)

lexer = self._mau.run_lexer(text)
parser = self._mau.run_parser(lexer.tokens)
content = self._mau.process(parser.nodes, parser.environment)

if visitor_class.transform:
    content = visitor_class.transform(content)

Check out Mau documentation for further information.

Pelican plugin

There is a Pelican plugin that enables you to use Mau in your blog. Check it at https://github.com/pelican-plugins/mau-reader.

You can see the plugin in action at https://www.thedigitalcatonline.com/blog/2021/02/22/mau-a-lightweight-markup-language/ and on other pages in my blog.

Support

You may report bugs or missing features use the issues page. If you want to ask for help or discuss ideas use the discussions page