lowdown_odt_new(3)

lowdown_odt_new3

Allocate a markdown opendocument renderer

Usage

#include <sys/queue.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <lowdown.h>

void *

lowdown_odt_new(const struct lowdown_opts *opts);

Library

library “liblowdown”

Overview

Allocates an OpenDocument renderer using opts->flags, or zero if opts is NULL. This field is documented in lowdown(3). The returned pointer may be used with multiple invocations of lowdown_odt_rndr(3) and must be freed with lowdown_odt_free(3).

The bits recognised in opts->oflags are LOWDOWN_SKIP_HTML and LOWDOWN_STANDALONE.

The opts->odt.sty field, if not NULL, overrides the default <office:font-face-decls>, <office:scripts>, and <office:styles> elements of the document styles.

Return values

Returns a pointer to the renderer or NULL on memory failure. The returned pointer must be freed with lowdown_odt_free(3).

Examples

The following parses b of length bsz and outputs in “flat” OpenDocument format.

struct lowdown_buf *out;
struct lowdown_doc *doc;
struct lowdown_node *n;
void *rndr;
if ((doc = lowdown_doc_new(NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((n = lowdown_doc_parse(doc, NULL, b, bsz, NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((out = lowdown_buf_new(256)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if ((rndr = lowdown_odt_new(NULL)) == NULL)
	err(1, NULL);
if (!lowdown_odt_rndr(out, rndr, n))
	err(1, NULL);
fwrite(out->data, 1, out->size, stdout);
lowdown_odt_free(rndr);
lowdown_buf_free(out);
lowdown_node_free(n);
lowdown_doc_free(doc);

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Standards

The referenced OpenDocument standard is 1.3: https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/.

From lowdown 3.2.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.