[TxMt] MultiMarkdown in TextMate

[Brad Miller]

Mark,

Good question.  It was mostly for experimental reasons.

Around the time I did this there was lots of chat on ##textmate about  
various approaches to go from something like markdown to pdf.   
Several people were very anti xslt, and  htmldoc sounded like one of  
the favorites at the time, and for smallish kinds of documents  
htmldoc seemed like it was quicker and more efficient than

MultiMarkdown -> xhtml -> Latex  -> pdf

For more complicated documents I have had great luck writing the bulk  
of my document in multimarkdown and then tweaking the final markup in  
the generated latex document.


Brad

On Mar 29, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

> Thanks again, Brad. It was useful to have a look at this. Is there  
> any particular reason you are using htmldoc in generating the PDF?  
> As opposed to pdflatex say? Is it because htmldoc does a better job  
> at generating pdfs viewable online? Best, Mark
> On 29 Mar 2006, at 17:05, Brad Miller wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> Here is my MultiMarkdown bundle.
>>
>> There are commands to go from MultiMarkdown to
>> Latex
>> HTML
>> PDF
>>
>> I have found this to be a very useful little bundle.  Let me know  
>> if you have any trouble.
>>
>>
>> <multimarkdown.zip>
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>>
>>> Apologies in advance if the answer to my query is blindingly  
>>> obvious---I am a UNIX newbie.
>>>
>>> I am trying to implement Fletcher Penney's variant of Markdown,  
>>> MultiMarkdown (http://fletcher.freeshell.org/wiki/MultiMarkdown),  
>>> as a TextMate bundle. The basic idea is to convert a Markdown  
>>> document into a full xhtml document and then to use xslt to  
>>> convert it into different formats such as LaTeX.
>>>
>>> I have written TextMate commands for each step of the process,  
>>> and it all works fine, but I would also like to add commands that  
>>> string these steps together. But there is a problem. For example,  
>>> while the following two TextMate commands work:
>>>
>>> Save: Nothing
>>> Command(s):	#!/bin/bash
>>> /usr/local/bin/MultiMarkdown.pl "$TM_FILEPATH"
>>> Input:	 None
>>> Output:	 Create New Document
>>>
>>> Save: Nothing
>>> Command(s):	#!/bin/bash
>>> /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet -novalid /usr/local/bin/ 
>>> xhtml2article.xslt "$TM_FILEPATH"
>>> Input:	 None
>>> Output:	 Create New Document
>>>
>>> the following fails---it generates an empty file:
>>>
>>> Save: Nothing
>>> Command(s):	#!/bin/bash
>>> /usr/local/bin/MultiMarkdown.pl "$TM_FILEPATH" | /usr/bin/ 
>>> xsltproc -nonet -novalid /usr/local/bin/xhtml2article.xslt
>>> Input:	 None
>>> Output:	 Create New Document
>>>
>>> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> All the best, Mark
>>> _________________
>>> Mark Eli Kalderon
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>>> University College London
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>>>
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