Using gophernicus filter for markdown documents
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:47:04 +0100
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With Gophernicus  it's very easy  to convert markdown  documents on
the fly.

in /etc/default/gophernicus add the option

  -f /usr/lib/gophernicus/filters

restart gophernicus

install md2html

  cd /usr/lib/gophernicus/filters/

  ln -s /usr/bin/md2html md

Now all  files with the  extension .md  will be filterd  by md2html
before display, in this  case  they  will  be  converted  to  html.

If you are using Lynx, you can use extern commands to pass the file
through a  browser, even another instance of Lynx, see :  
gopher://spike.nagatha.fr/0/phlog/2025-10-16-22-10-Viewing-youtube-videos-in-Lynx.txt

If you are  using Chawan, the file will  be processed automatically
in the same instance and buffer of Chawan.

You can also convert the files to text, in which case  an  external
conversion is unnecessary, but obviously formatting will be lost.

In my humble opinion, these days avoiding html is impossible, gopher
holes are full of html links, so a browser that supports  more  than
just the gopher protocol is sensible. Best of all is a browser  that
supports other small web protocols too such as  gemini  for  example.


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