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You should look at Pandoc[1]. It's a Markdown-to-everything converter, and though I'm not super familiar with the code I believe it's well written. One of my fa

You should look at Pandoc[1]. It's a Markdown-to-everything converter, and though I'm not super familiar with the code I believe it's well written. One of my favorite tools for writing. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

kenko 14y ago
Pandoc is fantastic, the parsing code is clear, and its extensions to markdown are well thought out. It's not just a markdown->everything converter, though. My install understands these: Input formats: native, json, markdown, markdown+lhs, rst, rst+lhs, textile, html, latex, latex+lhs Output formats: native, json, html, html5, html+lhs, html5+lhs, s5, slidy, dzslides, docbook, opendocument, latex, latex+lhs, beamer, beamer+lhs, context, texinfo, man, markdown, markdown+lhs, plain, rst, rst+lhs, mediawiki, textile, rtf, org, asciidoc, odt, docx, epub
intractable 14y ago
+1 for Pandoc. It's awesome. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Pandoc supports its own set of (IMO) sensible extensions / defaults to Gruber markdown [1]. [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow...
sandGorgon 14y ago
kramdown[1] is a ruby based Markdown parser. AFAIK it is P-E-G based and has some nifty support for tables, etc. [1] http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/ http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/
Loic 14y ago
You also need to add that the parser of Pandoc is not regular expression based. It is a very robust parser, parsing the document in an internal abstract tree you can easily modify. You can also adapt the parser to your needs with simple extensions. You can then get very nice outputs in HTML or PDF[1]. As it is a nice command line tool, it is easy to generate everything with a simple Makefile too. [1]: http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/ http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/
evolve2k 14y ago
Yes I came here also to add a +1 to ensuring that whatever standards discussions would include Pandoc and it's awesome implementation and converter. From the link, scroll down to 'Pandoc’s Markdown' about a third of the way down the page for all the details. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html
178 14y ago
+1 for Pandocs extensions. I can verify that is sufficient for producing a doctoral dissertion (in German; not my own…), via LaTeX. The way Pandoc handles citations, footnotes, tables(!), etc is just delightful.
mongol 14y ago
Yet another "Yay!" for pandoc. It is just so good.

kenko 14y ago

Pandoc is fantastic, the parsing code is clear, and its extensions to markdown are well thought out. It's not just a markdown->everything converter, though. My install understands these: Input formats: native, json, markdown, markdown+lhs, rst, rst+lhs, textile, html, latex, latex+lhs Output formats: native, json, html, html5, html+lhs, html5+lhs, s5, slidy, dzslides, docbook, opendocument, latex, latex+lhs, beamer, beamer+lhs, context, texinfo, man, markdown, markdown+lhs, plain, rst, rst+lhs, mediawiki, textile, rtf, org, asciidoc, odt, docx, epub

intractable 14y ago

+1 for Pandoc. It's awesome. Also, it needs to be mentioned that Pandoc supports its own set of (IMO) sensible extensions / defaults to Gruber markdown [1]. [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdow...

sandGorgon 14y ago

kramdown[1] is a ruby based Markdown parser. AFAIK it is P-E-G based and has some nifty support for tables, etc. [1] http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/ http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/

Loic 14y ago

You also need to add that the parser of Pandoc is not regular expression based. It is a very robust parser, parsing the document in an internal abstract tree you can easily modify. You can also adapt the parser to your needs with simple extensions. You can then get very nice outputs in HTML or PDF[1]. As it is a nice command line tool, it is easy to generate everything with a simple Makefile too. [1]: http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/ http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/

evolve2k 14y ago

Yes I came here also to add a +1 to ensuring that whatever standards discussions would include Pandoc and it's awesome implementation and converter. From the link, scroll down to 'Pandoc’s Markdown' about a third of the way down the page for all the details. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

178 14y ago

+1 for Pandocs extensions. I can verify that is sufficient for producing a doctoral dissertion (in German; not my own…), via LaTeX. The way Pandoc handles citations, footnotes, tables(!), etc is just delightful.

mongol 14y ago

Yet another "Yay!" for pandoc. It is just so good.