On Mon, December 19, 2011 11:40 pm, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Well, just submit pandoc, and will we will see what Lee has to say.
Nothing I have seen about pandoc suggests that it would be capable of satisfying my requirements; in two regards particularly: it has to be able to do the conversion without being told what kind of text input file it has been given, and it has to perform the conversion on a Gutentext file of my choice. In other words, given 4 text files using Markdown, ReStructured Text, s.m.l., and impoverished text: "pandoc File1.txt File1.html" "pandoc File2.txt File2.html" "pandoc File3.txt File3.html" "pandoc File4.txt File4.html" should all produce virtually the same output (identical is not necessary, I'll accept "close enough"), using HTML semantic structures, without the program having been told what the input format is for any particular file. Pandoc doesn't look very interesting to me. Converting from one markup language to another tends to be a very straight-forward task; the degree of success depends in large part on how closely the two markup languages match (PDF to HTML is a real pain, as PDF is almost exclusively presentational [how things look] and HTML is mostly semantic [what things are]). As near as I can tell, pandoc is just a collection of these one-to-one conversion routines. Because of what I view as a low probability of success, I'm not going to start looking at pandoc unless someone else comes to me an says, "I've tried it under your stipulations and it worked for me."