Hi BB, Thanx for the information. The problem is not going from one format to the other. That is easy enough. The was different. Lee want substantially identical HTML. That is a completely different animal. As an example you would have to catch such things as were a "author" used a table instead of a list. In one version and in the other a list was used. For the end display it would not matter much, but inside the generated code. Like I said the algorithm or the basic flow of the program needed is easy enough. Yet, the analysis or the code is something which requires quite a bit of socalled AI. In others you have to iron out the wrinkles of original format and coder. This task is more than non-trivial. I would not even know what kind of test suites of text to use, just too develop the heuristics needed. regards Keith. Am 08.12.2011 um 17:51 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:
keith said:
For $100??? You can be serious! Make that $1000 and I might think about it!
really? you would think about going on a wild goose chase for $1000? well, ok, so would i.
but how much would it cost to have you actually _go_ on that wild goose chase, and not just "think about it"?
$10,000? $100,000? or what?
the good news is that, if you want to code a text-to-html converter, you can do that _extremely_easily_ if you design a wise format, even if you are an unskilled coder like i am.
anyway, if you did want to convert various light-markup formats and .html, you should check out pandoc, open-source from john macfarlane.
here's the lede from that page:
If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Need to generate a man page from a markdown file? No problem. LaTeX to Docbook? Sure. HTML to MediaWiki? Yes, that too. Pandoc can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, textile, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, textile, groff man pages, Emacs org-mode, EPUB ebooks, and S5 and Slidy HTML slide shows. PDF output (via LaTeX) is also supported with the included markdown2pdf wrapper script.
whew! just _reading_ that makes me break out in a cold sweat and worry about fever dreams...
john macfarlane is a professor of philosophy at u.c. berkeley, so he can keep all of this straight. mere mortals should just use pandoc instead...
-bowerbird
p.s. be forewarned that there are a half-dozen versions of markdown, all of them just _slightly_ different... _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d