[TxMt] Saving generated HTML from Markdown

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On Apr 2 2007, at 01:39, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

>
> On Apr 1, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Michael Williams wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:21:03AM -0400, Lists In at IDC wrote:
>>> 3) You have to write a document with relatively light formatting  
>>> to be
>>> e-mailed and/or posted to a one-off web page during fast and furious
>>> specification development.  So, it needs to be pasted into an e-mail
>>> and/or "saved as" a simple file-based web page.  You need to keep  
>>> the
>>> Markdown version as that will form the basis of the final version  
>>> but
>>> it's much too cumbersome to edit and format in Word at this stage  
>>> (or
>>> any stage, but that's another discussion).
>>
>> This is my own normal use of Markdown, and I like the idea of adding
>> "Save HTML to new location" to the default Markdown bundle. In this
>> usage case, the HTML is like the PDF compiled from LaTeX source;  
>> the PDF
>> is for public consumption, but you need the LaTeX to continue to  
>> change
>> the document.
>
> There is a difference however, in that the LaTeX source has all the  
> information determining how the resulting PDF should look like. On  
> the other hand, Markdown doesn't contain any CSS information. So if  
> we only care about the HTML, without any css specification, then  
> this can be done of course, but I am not sure if it really is that  
> useful.
>

Well, if you use MultiMarkdown, you can use a metadata field to  
specify a CSS file. That would be a lot like inputting a standard  
preamble into a LaTeX file...

Anyway, part of the point of things like MultiMarkdown and pandoc[1]  
is to use and extended Markdown syntax to generate a variety of  
output---in which case the Markdwon file is functioning as a source  
file.

Best, Mark

[1] http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/