I’m a bit of a junkie for markup languages: I’ve used many, experimented with more, and am always eager to try a new one. Pandoc is a delight of a tool that allows you to convert from one markup language to another. There’s a proper, installable tool you can put on your local machine to handle full files, which will do a whole lot of the work for you, but you’ll still need to do some clean up on the results.
Something I find useful in itself, though, is the Try pandoc online demo.
On the Try pandoc web page, you:
- Select source and destination markup languages.
- Drop a block of content in the source markup type into a text area. (Very long samples will be truncated.)
- Click Convert to populate the second text area on the page with markup of the second type that does the same thing as the block you supplied.
If you already know how to do something in one markup, this is a very handy way to quickly get an example of the syntax for doing the same thing in another without taking the time to trawl the reference docs.
