This is a continuation of my rant about lean content and time management. You might want to read those, too.
I once had to convert a Word document to a web page.
After spending hours deleting mso-style blocks and cleaning up thousands of lines of crap, I swore (and swore, and swore) that I’d never do that again.
That’ll turn into an HTML numbered list or a rich text list.
You use tiny, free, reliable programs (or web-based tools) to convert those files to HTML, Word, PDF, or whatever.
What about conversion software? Let’s say a tiny black hole swallows up every Markdown converter on the planet. You still have nice, clean plain text. You can search-and-replace the symbols and then format by hand. Also, bloated word processors have more mass. They’ll get sucked in first.
And, since there are scads of tools for editing and previewing Markdown, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Which, after a cut-and-paste becomes the blog post you’re reading.
If you want to nerd out and have the best control, try my favorite toolset. I walk through the setup process on SlideShare.
Markdown is a cinch! Learn it. You’ll thank me later.
Should I write a tutorial?
I can write a tutorial if you want. There are so many out there; I figured I’d hold off. Let me know in the comments.
Sincere thanks for these. I had no idea markdown editors that exported to HTML were available.
I’ll be spending the rest of my day figuring out how to package this up for clients who perpetually copy/paste from Word into our CMS.
MD user since two years, beside the “copy to html” of Marked2, I use the MarkdowToWord site (http://www.markdowntoword.com/) to convert my MD content and insert them in my company’s template.
Yes, no more using Word, except for pasting images in the final document.
By the way, I code with Atom.io but also use this open source write to write in MD.