protocol

The protocol plugin will check if a code block has a protocol language tag. If found the the following steps will be performed:

1. protocol will be executed with the contents of the code block given to it on the command line.

2. The code block's contents will then be deleted and replaced with the output from protocol.

Error handling

In case of an error, the code block is left as-is.

Example

This markdown file:

We describe the following protocol:

``` protocol
Source:16,TTL:8,Reserved:40
```
Figure: This is a protocol.

Will be transformed with filter -p protocol < protocol.md | mmark -markdown, to:

We describe the following protocol:

```
 0                   1                   2                   3
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|             Source            |      TTL      |               |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+               +
|                            Reserved                           |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
```
Figure: This is a protocol.

See Also

http://www.luismg.com/protocol/ and the exec plugin.