Rewrite README with info on gmnhg

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[Gemini]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space
[Gemtext]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html
At this stage of development this repo contains the actual renderer
(`internal/gemini`) and the `md2gmn` program that converts Markdown
input to Gemtext and is supposed to facilitate testing.
The renderer is somewhat hasty, and is NOT supposed to be able to
convert the entirety of possible Markdown to Gemtext (as it's not
possible to do so, considering Gemtext is a lot simpler than Markdown),
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Markdown.
The renderer uses the [gomarkdown][gomarkdown] library for parsing
Markdown.
Markdown. gomarkdown has a few quirks at this time, the most notable one
being unable to parse links/images inside other links.
[gomarkdown]: https://github.com/gomarkdown/markdown
## gmnhg
This program converts Hugo Markdown content files from `content/` in
accordance with templates found in `layouts/gmnhg` to the output dir. It
also copies static files from `static/` to the output dir.
For more details about the rendering process, see the
[doc](cmd/gmnhg/main.go) attached to the program.
```
Usage of gmnhg:
-output string
output directory (will be created if missing) (default "output/")
-working string
working directory (defaults to current directory)
```
## md2gmn
This program reads Markdown input from either text file (if `-f
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input file
```
## TODO
+ [x] convert Markdown text to Gemtext
+ [x] prepend contents of YAML front matter to Gemtext data
+ [ ] render all Hugo content files to Gemtext in accordance with front
matter data and Hugo config
md2gmn is mainly made to facilitate testing the Gemtext renderer but
can be used as a standalone program as well.
## License
This program is redistributed under the terms and conditions of the GNU
General Public License, more specifically under version 3 of the
License. For details, see [COPYING](COPYING).
General Public License, more specifically version 3 of the License. For
details, see [COPYING](COPYING).