Show HN: One-file docs generator in 478 lines of AWK

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4 months ago

I struggled to find a docs generator that isn't itself a whole project to embed Markdown as offline documentation into our product.

Result: a single cross-platform, zero-dependency AWK script that converts Markdown to raw HTML.

478loc, vanilla HTML, web-safe colors, zero JS/CSS/inline styles, frameset navigation, contenteditable for copy & paste.

Try it: git clone https://github.com/tirrenotechnologies/hellodocs.git && cd hellodocs && awk -f hellodocs.awk -v title='Hello, Docs!' README.md