From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T04:25:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:

> 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?

Well, once there are libraries to do any one of these tasks, you can 
build a tool chain, similar to DBI, for example.

I know that there's a PDF generator written in Ruby, but i don't know 
about the other file formats. Creating markup parsers isn't that much of 
a challenge, so that could be done quite easily.

I'd be happy to, once ClothRed is feature-complete in the HTML -> 
Textile area, to write an API to integrate ClothRed into other tools.

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