`-I --input-format <inputformat>`

Selects the CLI input frontend. Supported values are bigb (the default) and markdown. Markdown is automatically selected for .md and .markdown input files, and can be selected explicitly for standard input:

printf '# Hello' | ourbigbook -I markdown -O bigb --stdout

Directory conversion remains BigB-only unless -I markdown is given, so that Markdown documentation files such as README.md are not compiled unexpectedly.

The Markdown frontend uses Marked to tokenize Markdown, converts those tokens to the OurBigBook AST through canonical OurBigBook source, and then uses the normal ID, validation and rendering pipeline. This is currently CLI-only.

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