On Wed, December 14, 2011 8:33 pm, D Garcia wrote:

I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned pandoc as a useful piece of kit.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

bb brain mentioned it in passing a few days ago. Conversion between formats is a fairly easy and straight-forward process. How successful the conversion is depends in large part on how well any two markup languages map to each other. This tool could be useful if you have a document in some strange format and want to convert it to a more standard format, and it probably is a useful part of a conversion tool chain. Unfortunately, what it won't do is convert a document with /no/ markup to a document /with/ markup.