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...n text-file, then regenerate the output again and compare it with the "original" output, repeating if necessary until there exists a pair of files that give perfect agreement. has anyone done such experiments already? is aaron's back-translation tool the best one? > http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ anyone know if/when/where it has problems? thanks in advance... -bowerbird p.s. anyone here have reaction to the analysis of markdown from ivan kristic for the one-laptop-per-child project? > http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=users/krstic/docformat;a=blob;h=d191a5a9f8b...

...gether 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/pa...

...ith the compatibility library) **Lua 5.0:** <<<< renders as <p><strong>Lua 5.0:</strong></p> John Gruber's Markdown dingus [3] exhibits the same behavior. Is that to be expected? See attachment for the full markup. Kind regards, PA. [1] http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ [2] http://www.frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua [3] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: RiciLake.txt Type: application/octet-stream Size: 4145 bytes Desc: not available Url : <ht...

...do it... and yes, probably 237 of 'em produce different results, but the point is that markdown-to-html just isn't that difficult... so let's move ourselves forward to back-translation, shall we? and, of course, the prior art for markdown is "html2text": > http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ by aaron. and it dates to 2002. but it probably still works ok, because -- as the page shows -- it's constantly being updated. indeed, the latest version appears to be hosted on github, with the latest file with a mod-date of just two days ago! who knew? we _might_ d...

I have two machines, speed and mass. speed has a fast Internet connection and is running a crawler which downloads a lot of files to disk. mass has a lot of disk space. I want to move the files from speed to mass after they're done downloading. Ideally, I'd just run: $ rsync --remove-source-files speed:/var/crawldir . but I worry that rsync will unlink a source file that hasn't