---
name: "omd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "omd"
version: "1.3.2-2+b3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/omd"
---

# omd(1)

Markdown frontend in pure OCaml

## NAME

omd - Markdown frontend in pure OCaml

## DESCRIPTION

omd \[options\] \[inputfile1 .. inputfileN\] \[options\]

**-o** file.html Specify the output file (default is stdout).

- **--**

  Consider all remaining arguments as input file names.

- **-u**

  Use standard Markdown style for emph/bold when using \`\_'.

- **-c**

  Ignore lines that start with \`!!!' (3 or more exclamation points).

- **-C**

  Ignore everything on a line after \`!!!' (3 or more exclamation points).

- **-m**

  Output Markdown instead of HTML.

- **-notags**

  Output without the HTML tags.

- **-toc**

  Replace \`\*Table of contents\*' by the table of contents.

- **-otoc**

  Output only the table of contents.

- **-ts** f

  Section for the Table of contents (default: all).

- **-td** f

  Table of contents depth (default is 2).

- **-H**

  Protect HTML comments.

- **-r** l=p

  Register program p as a code highlighter for language l.

- **-R** l

  Registers unknown languages to be l instead of void.

- **-nl2br**

  Convert new lines to \<br/\>.

- **-x** ext

  Activate extension ext (not yet implemented).

- **-l**

  List available extensions ext (not yet implemented).

- **-b**

  Don't check validity of HTML tag names.

- **-s**

  (might not work as expected yet) Block HTML only in block HTML, inline HTML only in inline HTML (semantics undefined if use both **-b** and **-s**).

- **-LHTML**

  List all known HTML tags

- **-LHTMLi**

  List all known inline HTML tags

- **-version**

  Print version.

- **-VS** start

  Set the start token to use to declare a verbatim section. If you use **-VE**, you must use **-VS**, and both must be non-empty.

- **-VE** end

  Set the end token to use to declare a verbatim section. If you use **-VE**, you must use **-VS**, and both must be non-empty.

- **-w**

  Activate warnings (beta).

- **-W**

  Convert warnings to errors, implies **-w** (beta).

- **-help**

  Display this list of options

- **--help**

  Display this list of options

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for **omd** is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the **info** and **omd** programs are properly installed at your site, the command

-

  **info omd**

should give you access to the complete manual.