Generates HTML from the Textile contents.

r = RedCloth.new( "And then? She *fell*!" )
r.to_html( true )
  #=>"And then? She <strong>fell</strong>!"

Source Code

# File redcloth.rb, line 266
def to_html( *rules )
    rules = DEFAULT_RULES if rules.empty?
    # make our working copy
    text = self.dup

    @urlrefs = {}
    @shelf = []
    textile_rules = [:refs_textile, :block_textile_table, :block_textile_lists,
                     :block_textile_prefix, :inline_textile_image, :inline_textile_link,
                     :inline_textile_code, :inline_textile_span, :glyphs_textile]
    markdown_rules = [:refs_markdown, :block_markdown_setext, :block_markdown_atx, :block_markdown_rule,
                      :block_markdown_bq, :block_markdown_lists, 
                      :inline_markdown_reflink, :inline_markdown_link]
    @rules = rules.collect do |rule|
        case rule
        when :markdown
            markdown_rules
        when :textile
            textile_rules
        else
            rule
        end
    end.flatten

    # standard clean up
    incoming_entities text 
    clean_white_space text 

    # start processor
    @pre_list = []
    rip_offtags text
    no_textile text
    hard_break text 
    unless @lite_mode
        refs text
        blocks text
    end
    inline text
    smooth_offtags text

    retrieve text

    text.gsub!( /<\/?notextile>/, '' )
    text.gsub!( /x%x%/, '&#38;' )
    clean_html text if filter_html
    text.strip!
    text

end