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.
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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...