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I'm merging legacy Systems and some components use Markdown and others use Textile formatting. This is extremely confusing to my users. Therefore I want to standardize on Markdown. Is there a way to convert at least the Bulk of Textile formatting to markdown automatically? Jonas Because Markdown and Textile are both meant to produce HTML, consider converting all Texile to HTML first. There are a number of Markdown implementations which also support converting HTML back to Markdown. Pandoc being one example. Another possible solution would be using XSLT . Because Textile is more verbose than

Please identify the most popular lightweight markup languages and compare their strengths and weaknesses. These languages should be general-purpose markup for technical prose, such as for documentation (for example, Haml doesn't count). See also: Markdown versus ReStructuredText JasonSmith I know of three main languages used commonly in the greater programming and tech community: Textile, Markdown, and reStructuredText. All three can be learned in a couple of hours or "winged" with the cheat sheet nearby. Textile Used by Redmine and the Ruby community 113 questions currently tagged on Stack

I need a javascript library to convert structured ascii text to html on the fly. I am especially interested in the following point: I would like do use anchored links inside pages, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.1 Which library for structured text would support this or if it is not supported could be easily extended (i could write an extension)? Can you make a suggestion for a good and simple syntax for structured ascii text for "in page links"? <a href="#jumpend">jump to the end</a> ...some body text... <a name="jumpend">this is the end</a> I like the way links

Now i ran into some stupid situation. I want the users to be able to use textile, but they shouldn't mess around with my valid HTML around their entry. So I have to escape the HTML somehow. html_escape(textilize("</body>Foo")) would break textile while textilize(html_escape("</body>Foo")) would work, but breaks various Textile features like links (written like "Linkname":http://www.wheretogo.com/ ), since the quotes would be transformed into " and thus not detected by textile anymore. sanitize doesn't do a better job. Any suggestions on that one? I would prefer not to use Tidy for this problem

I'm making a simple Textile parser and am trying to write a regular expression for "blockquote" but am having difficulty matching multiple new lines. Example: bq. first line of quote second line of quote third line of quote not part of the quote It will be replaced with blockquote tags via preg_replace() so basically it needs to match everything between "bq." and the first double new line it comes across. The best I can manage is to get the first line of the quote. Thanks Try this regex: (?s)bq\.((?!(\r?\n){2}).)*+ meaning: (?s) # enable dot-all option b # match the character 'b' q # match the

There are several good Javascript editors for Markdown / Textile (e.g.: http://attacklab.net/showdown/ , the one I'm using right now), but all I need is a Javascript function that converts a string from Markdown / Textile -> HTML and back. What's the best way to do this? (Ideally it would be jQuery-friendly -- e.g., $("#editor").markdown_to_html() ) Edit: Another way to put it is that I'm looking for a Javascript implementation of Rails' textilize() and markdown() text helpers Pascal MARTIN For Markdown -> HTML, there is Showdown StackOverflow itself uses Markdown language for questions and