For those on other platforms you can use JEdit for Markdown and for RST: https://plugins.jedit.org/plugins/?MarkdownPlugin https://chiplicity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Using_Sphinx/ToolsForReStructure... On my Goodreads blog I wrote a bunch of articles on how to take RST and convert it to plain text, HTML, and TeX. That was how I did all of my PG titles. I haven't done one in awhile, but it was a pretty good process: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21812653-put-old-books-back-in-p... James Simmons On Sat, Jul 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
FWIW, Windows 11 Notepad now has a simple markdown subset built-in. Stores to an "md" suffix file but renaming that to a "txt" file shows that it is traditional markdown, which can be translated to simple HTML. Maybe useful for people who don't know a lot of computerize, but want to do a simple book.
<h1>Book Title</h1> <h2>Chapter 1</h2> <h3>Chapter Heading</h3> <h4>Chapter Subheading</h4> <h5>Section</h5> <h6>Subsection</h6> <p>Body text -- The <strong>boy</strong> stood on the <em>burning</em> deck ...</p>