From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T04:02:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

From: Phillip Gawlowski [mailto:cmdjackryan@googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:39 PM
>
>I'm pleased to announce, that I've begun working on a small library to
>convert HTML into Textile.
>
>Please forgive me, that this announcement isn't yet following the
>community's standards, but I'm slowly getting there.
>
>For the curious, the website and project on RuybForge have gone online
>*and* have some content[0].
>
>For the impatient:
>ClothRed will be exactly the reverse of RedCloth: It will grab any HTML
>string, and convert it into Textile.
>
>As a bonus, ClothRed will strip all HTML that is not being converted
>into Textile's markup from the text, making it, hopefully, usable for
>sanitizing HTML.
>
>I hope to have an Alpha release out by the end of next month.
>

Awesome!

x x x 

A bit OT, but I'm dreaming/planning (for a long time) about library, which
can handle "greatest common divisor" of all simple text format and perform
uniformly conversions like

Textile   <=>     <=> HTML
Markdown  <=>     <=> PDF
Mediawiki <=> gcd <=> PS
RDOC      <=>     <=> OpenOffice

There are several projects performing only [some markup]=>html conversions.
There is also Maruku[1], which seems to handle virually any Markdown=>[rich
format] conversion (and seems to embody some common intermediate format).
There is now your project.

Isn't now a time to do something more generic?

V.

1: maruku.rubyforge.org