I really like the idea of Markdown text. Being able to write in a natural format and then quickly convert to HTML (or a PDF) appeals to me in a way that is difficult to explain. I thought that Latex would solve this need, but it’s far too complex to use on a regular basis for simple documents.
Markdown does exactly what I want. It’s simple, easy to learn, natural syntax makes creating documentation a breeze. I also want to be able to quickly display text in a terminal (because who wants formatting marks when you’re actually trying to read something?). There were a few solutions online, none of them I was happy with, so I’ve chained a few tools together, threw it in a shell script and off we go.
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- Copy Markdown.py to /usr/local/bin/Markdown
Make sure you have w3m installed
- ‘sudo apt-get install w3m’
Download this Gist and place it somewhere in your $PATH
[inline] [script src=“https://gist.github.com/adamrb/5090451.js”][/script] [/inline]
Doing so can quickly turn this:
To this:
