readme2html [plain text]

#!/bin/sh

# Crude script to convert plain READMEs to HTML

echo '<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Title Here</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">

</head>

<body>

<h1>Title Here</h1>'

sed '
	s/&/\&amp;/g
	s/</\&lt;/g
	s/>/\&gt;/g
' "$@" | awk '
/^====+$/ { print "<h2>" line "</h2>"; line = ""; getline; next }
NF == 0   { print line; print $0; print "<p>"; line = $0; next }
	  { print line; line = $0 }
END	  { print line }
'

echo '
</body>

</html>'