diff --git a/odf.c b/odf.c
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+/**********************************************************************
+
+  odf.c - Utility routines to enable ODF support in peg-multimarkdown.
+  (c) 2011 Fletcher T. Penney (http://fletcherpenney.net/).
+
+  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License or the MIT
+  license.  See LICENSE for details.
+
+  This program 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
+  GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ ***********************************************************************/
+
+
+void print_odf_header(GString *out){
+    
+    /* Insert required XML header */
+    g_string_append_printf(out,
+"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" \
+"<office:document xmlns:office=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:style=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:text=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:table=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:draw=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:fo=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:meta=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:number=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:datastyle:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:svg=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:chart=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:chart:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:dr3d=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:dr3d:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:math=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:form=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:form:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:script=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:script:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:config=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:config:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:ooo=\"http://openoffice.org/2004/office\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:ooow=\"http://openoffice.org/2004/writer\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:oooc=\"http://openoffice.org/2004/calc\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:dom=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:xforms=\"http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:rpt=\"http://openoffice.org/2005/report\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:of=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:of:1.2\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:xhtml=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:grddl=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/g/data-view#\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:tableooo=\"http://openoffice.org/2009/table\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:field=\"urn:openoffice:names:experimental:ooo-ms-interop:xmlns:field:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:formx=\"urn:openoffice:names:experimental:ooxml-odf-interop:xmlns:form:1.0\"\n" \
+"     xmlns:css3t=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/\"\n" \
+"     office:version=\"1.2\"\n" \
+"     grddl:transformation=\"http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/1.2/xslt/odf2rdf.xsl\"\n" \
+"     office:mimetype=\"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text\">\n");
+    
+    /* Font Declarations */
+    g_string_append_printf(out, "<office:font-face-decls>\n" \
+    "   <style:font-face style:name=\"Courier New\" svg:font-family=\"'Courier New'\"\n" \
+    "                    style:font-adornments=\"Regular\"\n" \
+    "                    style:font-family-generic=\"modern\"\n" \
+    "                    style:font-pitch=\"fixed\"/>\n" \
+    "</office:font-face-decls>\n");
+    
+    /* Append basic style information */
+    g_string_append_printf(out, "<office:styles>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Standard\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:class=\"text\">\n" \
+    "      <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-top=\"0in\" fo:margin-bottom=\"0.15in\"" \
+    "     fo:text-align=\"justify\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "   </style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Preformatted_20_Text\" style:display-name=\"Preformatted Text\"\n" \
+    "             style:family=\"paragraph\"\n" \
+    "             style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:class=\"html\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-top=\"0in\" fo:margin-bottom=\"0in\" fo:text-align=\"start\"\n" \
+    "                               style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "   <style:text-properties style:font-name=\"Courier New\" fo:font-size=\"11pt\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-name-asian=\"Courier New\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-size-asian=\"11pt\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-name-complex=\"Courier New\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-size-complex=\"11pt\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Source_20_Text\" style:display-name=\"Source Text\"\n" \
+    "             style:family=\"text\">\n" \
+    "   <style:text-properties style:font-name=\"Courier New\" style:font-name-asian=\"Courier New\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-name-complex=\"Courier New\"\n" \
+    "                          fo:font-size=\"11pt\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"List\" style:family=\"paragraph\"\n" \
+    "             style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:class=\"list\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=\"start\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "   <style:text-properties style:font-size-asian=\"12pt\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Quotations\" style:family=\"paragraph\"\n" \
+    "             style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:class=\"html\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-left=\"0.3937in\" fo:margin-right=\"0.3937in\" fo:margin-top=\"0in\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:margin-bottom=\"0.1965in\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:text-align=\"justify\"" \ 
+    "                               style:justify-single-word=\"false\"" \
+    "                               fo:text-indent=\"0in\"\n" \
+    "                               style:auto-text-indent=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Table_20_Heading\" style:display-name=\"Table Heading\"\n" \
+    "             style:family=\"paragraph\"\n" \
+    "             style:parent-style-name=\"Table_20_Contents\"\n" \
+    "             style:class=\"extra\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=\"center\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"\n" \
+    "                               text:number-lines=\"false\"\n" \
+    "                               text:line-number=\"0\"/>\n" \
+    "   <style:text-properties fo:font-weight=\"bold\" style:font-weight-asian=\"bold\"\n" \
+    "                          style:font-weight-complex=\"bold\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"Horizontal_20_Line\" style:display-name=\"Horizontal Line\"\n" \
+    "             style:family=\"paragraph\"\n" \
+    "             style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:class=\"html\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-top=\"0in\" fo:margin-bottom=\"0.1965in\"\n" \
+    "                               style:border-line-width-bottom=\"0.0008in 0.0138in 0.0008in\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:padding=\"0in\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:border-left=\"none\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:border-right=\"none\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:border-top=\"none\"\n" \
+    "                               fo:border-bottom=\"0.0154in double #808080\"\n" \
+    "                               text:number-lines=\"false\"\n" \
+    "                               text:line-number=\"0\"\n" \
+    "                               style:join-border=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "   <style:text-properties fo:font-size=\"6pt\" style:font-size-asian=\"6pt\" style:font-size-complex=\"6pt\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "</office:styles>\n");
+
+    /* Automatic style information */
+    g_string_append_printf(out, "<office:automatic-styles>" \
+    "   <style:style style:name=\"MMD-Italic\" style:family=\"text\">\n" \
+    "      <style:text-properties fo:font-style=\"italic\" style:font-style-asian=\"italic\"\n" \
+    "                             style:font-style-complex=\"italic\"/>\n" \
+    "   </style:style>\n" \
+    "   <style:style style:name=\"MMD-Bold\" style:family=\"text\">\n" \
+    "      <style:text-properties fo:font-weight=\"bold\" style:font-weight-asian=\"bold\"\n" \
+    "                             style:font-weight-complex=\"bold\"/>\n" \
+    "   </style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"MMD-Table\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:margin-top=\"0in\" fo:margin-bottom=\"0.05in\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"MMD-Table-Center\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:parent-style-name=\"MMD-Table\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=\"center\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"MMD-Table-Right\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:parent-style-name=\"MMD-Table\">\n" \
+    "   <style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=\"right\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"P2\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:list-style-name=\"L2\">\n" \
+    "<style:paragraph-properties fo:text-align=\"start\" style:justify-single-word=\"false\"/>\n" \
+    "</style:style>\n" \
+	"<style:style style:name=\"fr1\" style:family=\"graphic\" style:parent-style-name=\"Frame\">\n" \
+	"   <style:graphic-properties style:print-content=\"false\" style:vertical-pos=\"top\"\n" \
+	"                             style:vertical-rel=\"baseline\"\n" \
+	"                             fo:padding=\"0in\"\n" \
+	"                             fo:border=\"none\"\n" \
+	"                             style:shadow=\"none\"/>\n" \
+	"</style:style>\n" \
+    "</office:automatic-styles>\n" \
+    "<style:style style:name=\"P1\" style:family=\"paragraph\" style:parent-style-name=\"Standard\"\n" \
+    "             style:list-style-name=\"L1\"/>\n" \
+    "<text:list-style style:name=\"L1\">\n" \
+    "   <text:list-level-style-bullet />\n" \
+    "</text:list-style>\n" \
+    "<text:list-style style:name=\"L2\">\n" \
+    "   <text:list-level-style-number />\n" \
+    "</text:list-style>\n");
+}
+
+void print_odf_footer(GString *out) {
+    g_string_append_printf(out, "</office:text>\n</office:body>\n</office:document>");
+}
+
diff --git a/odf.h b/odf.h
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+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <glib.h>