Markdown Discuss - Sep 2007 - two pandoc web apps

I've put together two small web apps to demonstrate pandoc:

1. [html2x](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html) can convert
most web pages to markdown, reStructuredText, DocBook, LaTeX, ConTeXt,
RTF, or groff man. Bookmarklets are provided. html2x is modeled
on Aaron Swartz's [html2text](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/),
but it's faster, supports multiple output formats, and behaves a bit
differently (for example, it wraps text, puts all the links at the
end instead of interspersing them, and uses text instead of numbers
for link identifiers). 

2. [Try Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try) allows you to
experiment with pandoc without going to the trouble of installing it on
your system.

I'm also pleased to report that the most recent version of pandoc
(0.44) is five times faster than previous versions, and can now parse
the TextMate manual in less than a second on a Core Duo 1.66GHz machine
(vs. over 15 seconds for Markdown.pl 1.0.2b8).

John

john said:
>    I've put together two small web apps to demonstrate pandoc:
yes!   i've been waiting for that!   thank you!

i'm not too sure how well it is working quite yet,
but it's an encouraging step in the right direction!

and thanks also to fletcher, for making on o.s.x. drop-app
for his multi-markdown variant.   terminal is _so_ 1980s...

-bowerbird



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