Convert Wikidot style syntax to Markdown style syntax

 Useful Hints and Scripts, Websites, Webservers & Webtechnology  No Responses »
Jun 142012
 

I wrote a converter for Wikidot syntax that outputs Markdown syntax. You can use it to move from Wikidot.com to any Markdown based wiki / blog / note collection.

I set up an online converter that you can use to convert your Wikidot syntax files to Markdown.

The converter itself is written in Python and I published it on Github: wikidot-to-markdown.

The converter does not cover the full Wikidot syntax and features yet. If you would like another feature to be supported, fork the project on Github and implement it, or contact me about it.

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Markdown for the Gedit Text Editor on Ubuntu 11.04

 Debian, Ubuntu 11.04  1 Response »
Jun 262011
 

This is the continuation of the topic gedit Markdown plugin and the comment by Jean-Philippe Fleury, the author of the plugin.

If you frequently have to create Markdown documents, you might want your text editor of choice to support you. Jean-Philippe Fleury developed a nice plugin for Gedit to support Markdown. The plugin can help in two ways: It can apply coloured syntax markup and add a preview pane showing you a rendered version of the markdown code you just entered using [Shift]+[Control]+[m] (configurable via a config file).

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Table of Contents for WordPress Blog Posts with Markdown Markup

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Jan 142011
 

The TOC Generator Plugin does not work as it searches for HTML headings before the markup (in my case Markdown) is applied.

Markdown supports the [TOC] tag starting with Markdown version 2.0; untested though. Source: http://thomas.pelletier.im/2010/03/use-markdown-with-wordpress/. http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/mdx_toc contains python source code for this.

More untested solutions include:

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Install WordPress on Ubuntu (Including Markdown Markup Support)

 Ubuntu 10.10  No Responses »
Dec 172010
 

http://wordpress-deutschland.org/download/englisch/
http://www.weblogmatrix.org/show/Wordpress

cd /var/www/
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar -xf latest.tar.gz
rm latest.tar.gz

Markdown for WordPress

http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/
also nice but not working yet (at least on my installation): http://brettterpstra.com/code/markdown-quicktags/

Markdown is a great markup language for publications such as technical blogs as it keeps the structure of the text very readable, is fast to type and highly convertible to other formats such as HTML, LaTeX and many more (see pandoc).

cd wp-content/plugins/
wget http://michelf.com/docs/projets/php-markdown-extra-1.2.4.zip
unzip php-markdown-extra-1.2.4.zip
rm php-markdown-extra-1.2.4.zip
mv PHP\ Markdown\ Extra\ 1.2.4/markdown.php ./
rm -rf mv PHP\ Markdown\ Extra\ 1.2.4

Another Plugin that’s interesting for WordPress authors using Markdown: Markdown QuickTags.

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Use pandoc To Convert LaTeX to Markdown

 Ubuntu 10.10  No Responses »
Nov 032010
 

Pandoc is a tool to convert documents from one format to another and it supports quite some formats! You can test it and convert small docs online: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try

Supported input formats include

  • markdown,
  • html,
  • latex, and rst.

Note that the rst reader only parses a subset of reStructuredText syntax. (The latex and html input readers are limited in what they can do.)

Supported output formats include

  • markdown,
  • latex,
  • context (ConTeXt),
  • html, rtf (rich text format),
  • rst (reStructuredText),
  • docbook (DocBook XML),
  • opendocument (OpenDocument XML),
  • odt (OpenOffice text document),
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gedit Markdown plugin

 Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 9.10  6 Responses »
Mar 092010
 

For an up-to-date version of the information about the gedit Markdown plugin go to the new blog post Markdown for the Gedit Text Editor on Ubuntu 11.04.

If you frequently have to create Markdown documents, you might want your text editor of choice to support you. M Fleury developed a nice plugin for Gedit to support Markdown. The plugin can help in two ways: It can apply coloured syntax markup and add a bottom pane showing you a rendered version of the markdown code you just entered using [Shift]+[Control]+[m].

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