MultiMarkdown exports readable text files to HTML, PDF, POD, RTF, DOCX, LaTeX and OPML; yet it produces highly structured documents (with titles, outline, footnotes, bibliography, etc.
MultiMarkdown for Windows is free, opensource and has an postable version already.
"MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.fodt’, which can in turn be converted into RTF, Microsoft Word, or virtually any other word-processing format)."
Additionally, you can write a MultiMarkdown document in any text editor, on any operating system, and know that it will be compatible with MultiMarkdown on any other operating system and processed into the same output. As a plain text format, your documents will be safe no matter how many times you switch computers, operating systems, or favorite applications. You will always be able to open and edit your documents, even when the version of the software you originally wrote them in is long gone.
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I think we had a request for another markdown app a while back. I like the idea but I'm not seeing people asking me (or anyone else) for a markdown version of a document.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
suggests that there are differences even amongst the relatively small number of people using markdown.
If you want to do it go for it.
Wm
That is right! Different people ask for specific versions of one single document; most of them do not ask for the source, but a version specific for their needs and reading software. Some ask for PDF, others for HTML, some others for DOCX, or DOC, or OO. If you have the source in one of them, the conversion to the others can be difficult. Yet, if you have it in plain text, with a subtle markdown mar up, you can export it to any format easily through Fletcher Penney's libraries.
With Pandoc's libraries it should be even more versatile, but I don't think it is portable.*
Besides, the file can remain usable for decades in plain text, regardless of software demises and innovations.
Also, a plain text document can pass along many different platforms without getting corrupted.
And finally, if multimarkdown is already portable, it must be easy to make it show properly in PortableApps launcher.
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Pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, or Haddock markup to
HTML formats: XHTML, HTML5, and HTML slide shows using Slidy, reveal.js, Slideous, S5, or DZSlides.
Word processor formats: Microsoft Word docx, OpenOffice/LibreOffice ODT, OpenDocument XML
Ebooks: EPUB version 2 or 3, FictionBook2
Documentation formats: DocBook, GNU TexInfo, Groff man pages, Haddock markup
Page layout formats: InDesign ICML
Outline formats: OPML
TeX formats: LaTeX, ConTeXt, LaTeX Beamer slides
PDF via LaTeX
Lightweight markup formats: Markdown, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc, MediaWiki markup, Emacs Org-Mode, Textile
Custom formats: custom writers can be written in lua.
Eolo
I see your smile, who must do the work? if you start you will get help
Wm
I just thought it would be an addition to the PortableApps suite, both easy to make yet valuable. I have not the slightest idea about how to adapt it. I'm no programmer of sorts.
Eolo