diff --git a/highbeam b/highbeam
index 2119a56..c4dfaa6 100755
--- a/highbeam
+++ b/highbeam
@@ -8,20 +8,21 @@ syntax highlighter.
 Example rules: ( ~/.highbeamrc )
 --------------------
 RULES=( 
-    "[0-9]"      "$C" # Show numbers with Cyan color. NOTE: since the colors are represented with numbers, having this later in the rules will break coloring!
+    "[0-9]"      "$c" # Show numbers with Cyan color. NOTE: since the colors are represented with numbers, having this later in the rules will break coloring!
     "$USER[ ]\+$USER"  "$BGC$BLACK" # Use quotes to have rules with spaces. This colors the "ls -la" usernames. background cyan, black text
-    status       "$G" # simple word matching, coloring green
-    "^d[^ ]*"    "$H$G" # color words at the beginning of line, starting with d.  color bright green
-    "q.\{0,3\}r" "$H$Y" # q*r with maximum 3 characters in between. color bright yellow
+    status       "$g" # simple word matching, coloring green
+    "^d[^ ]*"    "$G" # color words at the beginning of line, starting with d.  color bright green
+    "q.\{0,3\}r" "$Y" # q*r with maximum 3 characters in between. color bright yellow
 )
 --------------------
 Rules can be also exressed as a space separated list variable:
 export HB_RULES='\''"[0-9]" "$C" "g" "$Y"'\''
    HB_RULES are appended to other rules
 
-Color variables:  $R $G $B $Y $M $C $W $BLACK
-Modify to bright version by prefixing with $H  (e.g. $H$G)
-Background colors: $BGR $BGG $BGB $BGY $BGC $BGM $BGW 
+Bright colors:  $R $G $B $Y $M $C $W $K
+Dark colors:    $r $g $b $y $m $c $w $k
+Modify to bright version by prefixing with $H  (e.g. $H$g)
+Background colors: $BR $BG $BB $BY $BC $BM $BW 
 
 Usage:   highbeam [-c] [-h] [-f config]
    -c    Be case sensitive
@@ -38,24 +39,32 @@ H="${E}1m"
 Z="${E}0m"
 
 # list of text colors:
-BLACK="${E}30m"
-R="${E}31m"
-G="${E}32m"
-B="${E}34m"
-Y="${E}33m"
-M="${E}35m"
-C="${E}36m"
-W="${E}37m"
+K="${E}1;30m"
+R="${E}1;31m"
+G="${E}1;32m"
+B="${E}1;34m"
+Y="${E}1;33m"
+M="${E}1;35m"
+C="${E}1;36m"
+W="${E}1;37m"
+k="${E}30m"
+r="${E}31m"
+g="${E}32m"
+b="${E}34m"
+y="${E}33m"
+m="${E}35m"
+c="${E}36m"
+w="${E}37m"
 
 
 # list of BG colors:
-BGR="${E}41m"
-BGG="${E}42m"
-BGB="${E}44m"
-BGY="${E}43m"
-BGM="${E}45m"
-BGC="${E}46m"
-BGW="${E}47m"
+BR="${E}41m"
+BG="${E}42m"
+BB="${E}44m"
+BY="${E}43m"
+BM="${E}45m"
+BC="${E}46m"
+BW="${E}47m"
 
 
 CONF_FILE=~/.highbeamrc
diff --git a/reporting/md-color b/reporting/md-color
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d73c9c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reporting/md-color
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+function helpexit() {
+    echo "Colorify a markdown document"
+    echo "Give filename(s) as the argument"
+    echo " Depends on highbeam "
+    exit
+}
+[[ -z "$1" ]] && helpexit
+[[ "$1" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
+
+export HB_RULES='"^\s*\*.*" "$y" \
+"^[[:space:]]*[0-9]\+\..*" "$y" \
+"^#.*" "$W" \
+"^\s\s\s\s[^\*0-9].*" "$c" \
+"\`[^[[:space:]]]*[^\`]\+\`" "$c" \
+"\[[^]]\+\]([^)]\+)" "$B" \
+"\*[^[[:space:]]]*[^\*]\+\*" "$H" \
+"_[^[[:space:]]]*[^\_]\+_" "$H" \
+"<[^>]\+>" "$K" \
+'
+
+# * bullets
+# 1. ordered list
+# ## Headers
+# code block
+# code inline
+# [links](URL) 
+#  *bold* 
+# _bold_
+# <> tags
+cat "$@" | highbeam
+
diff --git a/reporting/md-toc b/reporting/md-toc
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4ec3af1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reporting/md-toc
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+function helpexit() {
+    echo "Print out TOC of a markdown document"
+    echo "Give filename(s) as the argument"
+    echo " -n  to number TOC elements instead of bullet"
+    exit
+}
+[[ -z "$1" ]] && helpexit
+[[ "$1" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
+[[ "$1" = "-n" ]] && {
+    NUMBER=1
+    shift
+}
+
+[[ "$NUMBER" -eq 1 ]] && {
+    grep ^# "$@" | sed -e 's,^#,1.,' -e ':loop' -e 's,1.#,    1.,' -e 't loop' | pandoc -t markdown_strict
+} || {
+    grep ^# "$@" | sed -e 's,^#,*,' -e ':loop' -e 's,*#,    *,' -e 't loop'
+}
diff --git a/reporting/md-view b/reporting/md-view
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0728227
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reporting/md-view
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+function helpexit() {
+    echo "View a markdown document"
+    echo "Give filename(s) as the argument"
+    echo " Depends on pandoc and lynx "
+    exit
+}
+[[ -z "$1" ]] && helpexit
+[[ "$1" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
+
+tempfile=`tempfile 2>/dev/null` || tempfile=/tmp/markdown$$.html
+trap "rm -f $tempfile" 0 1 2 5 15
+
+
+cat "$@" | pandoc -s > "$tempfile"
+lynx -force_html "$tempfile"