mdsplit

README

mdsplit – Markdown Splitting (Go CLI & Library)

mdsplit splits large Markdown files into smaller "slides" for easier viewing on mobile devices. It ships as a CLI and as a library so you can call it from your own code. No Node, headless browsers, or helper scripts.

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What it does

• Parses Markdown with goldmark and splits the result into multiple Markdown files.
• Intelligently splits content based on a maximum line count.
• Handles long tables by splitting them and adding a header to each part with a continuation note.
• Customizable slide size (vertical and horizontal).

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Install

Clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/arran4/mdsplit.git
cd mdsplit
go build ./cmd/mdsplit

Dependencies are managed in go.mod and will be automatically downloaded by the go build command.

Requires Go 1.22 or newer.

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CLI usage

./mdsplit -in README.md -out ./slides

Flags

Flag	Description	Default
-in	Markdown input file, or stdin when empty	—
-out	Output directory for the split files	.
-max-height	Maximum height of a slide in lines	40
-max-width	Maximum width of a slide in pixels (not yet implemented)	1024
-theme	light or dark (not yet implemented)	light

Examples

Split a Markdown file into slides:

./mdsplit -in example.md -out ./slides -max-height 50

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Library usage

package main

import (
        "os"

        "github.com/arran4/mdsplit"
)

func main() {
        err := mdsplit.Split([]byte("# Hello\nThis is a large Markdown file!"), mdsplit.SplitOptions{OutDir: "./slides", MaxHeight: 50})
        if err != nil {
                panic(err)
        }
}

SplitOptions exposes the same knobs as the CLI. Set custom dimensions.

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How it works

1. Parse Markdown with yuin/goldmark and the goldmark-gfm extension.
2. Walk the AST and split the content into multiple smaller Markdown files based on a maximum line count.
3. If a table is too long, it is split into multiple slides, with the header repeated on each slide.
4. Write the split Markdown files to the output directory.

Everything happens in memory; there is no HTML renderer or external process.

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Roadmap

• Use md2png's rendering engine to accurately measure slide height.
• Implement -max-width to control the width of the slides.
• Intelligent splitting of lists and code blocks.
• Support for different output formats (e.g., a single HTML file with multiple sections).
• Configurable themes via YAML/JSON.

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License

mdsplit is available under the MIT License.

Documentation

Index

• func Split(data []byte, opts SplitOptions) error
• type SplitOptions

Functions

func Split

func Split(data []byte, opts SplitOptions) error

Split takes a Markdown file as a byte slice and splits it into smaller files.

Types

type SplitOptions

type SplitOptions struct {
	OutDir    string
	MaxHeight int
	MaxWidth  int
	Theme     string
}

SplitOptions holds the configuration for splitting the Markdown file.