# jemdoc: menu{MENU}{index.html}, showsource
= jemdoc-cvx -- light markup, modernized

jemdoc is a light text-based markup language designed for creating
websites, originally written by [http://stanford.edu/~jacobm/ Jacob Mattingley].
It takes a text file written with [example.html jemdoc markup], an
optional configuration file and an optional menu file, and emits a static
website. jemdoc was inspired by [http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ AsciiDoc];
the main differences are that jemdoc is simpler (deliberately feature-poor)
and has more consistent syntax.

This is *jemdoc-cvx*, a modernized fork of jemdoc and
[https://github.com/wsshin/jemdoc_mathjax jemdoc\+MathJax]. The +.jemdoc+
input format is unchanged and the iconic look is preserved, but the tool
itself is rewritten for a modern stack: HTML5 output, CSS3, Python 3.11\+,
and server-side equation rendering with [https://katex.org/ KaTeX]. See
the [download.html download page] to get started or the
[revision.html revision notes] for what changed.

[https://github.com/cvxgrp/jemdoc-cvx Contribute to jemdoc-cvx on GitHub.]

== Goals
- Simple, consistent syntax.
- $\LaTeX$ [latex.html equation support], rendered server-side.
- [tables.html Table support].
- Portability. A single executable +jemdoc+ script (Python stdlib only) \+
  a single CSS file \+ your input file {{→}} html.
- Based on [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ CSS] so formatting specifics are
  independent of jemdoc.
- Clean, valid HTML5 output.
- Minimal bells and whistles, with a raw-html fallback for edge cases.

== License
Copyright \C 2007--2012 Jacob Mattingley. KaTeX/HTML5 modernization
copyright \C 2026 Stanford University Convex Optimization Group.

jemdoc is free software; you can redistribute it and\/or modify it under the
terms of the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GNU General Public
License] as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

jemdoc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GNU
General Public License] for more details.