Copy markdown as HTML

[Frank Eves]

Markdown focused applications like iA Writer, Marked2 and Ulysses have an Edit Menu item 'Copy as HTML'. I find it handy when creating WordPress content. Unfortunately, for my purposes, BBEdit's Edit menu's 'Copy as Styled HTML' outputs more complex text. Can someone suggest an easy way to copy markdown as basic HTML in BBEdit?

[Rick Gordon]

I suspect that the information on this page, referring to the
python3-markdown utility, could be used, along with BBEdit's ability to
run terminal commands and/or text filters.

http://tuxdiary.com/2016/06/30/markdown-to-html-terminal

Rick Gordon

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On November 7, 2022 at 1:15:10 PM [-0800], Frank Eves wrote in an email
entitled "Copy markdown as HTML":

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[Rich Siegel]

"Copy as Styled HTML" is intended for copying an HTML representation of the actual text displayed in the editing area, e.g. for including the syntax-colored text as a code example in a web page.

When used with a Markdown document, the "Export as HTML" command on the File menu will export the same HTML that is used for previewing.

R.

[Neil Faiman]

On Nov 8, 2022, at 6:57 AM, Rich Siegel <sie...@barebones.com> wrote:

When used with a Markdown document, the "Export as HTML" command on the File menu will export the same HTML that is used for previewing.

Is that functionality accessible through AppleScript?

[Greg Raven]

The obvious answer is to copy the Markdown and paste it into WordPress. WordPress will convert it to it's own special format(s), and then your should be good to go.

If you insist on using HTML for WordPress, Daring Fireball offers a BBEdit plugin that converts Markdown to HTML.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[jj]

You could try pandoc.

 Install it from Terminal with homebrew:

    % brew install pandoc
   
Create this simple BBEdit script in ~/Library/Application\ Support/BBEdit/Scripts/copy_markdown_as_html.applescript
   
and call the script from menu Script > Apply Text Filter > copy_markdown_as_html.

HTH,

Jean Jourdain

[jj]

Oups! Hastily copy/pasted:

* ... and call the script from menu Script > Apply Text Filter > copy_markdown_as_html.

Should read:

and call the script from menu Scripts > copy_markdown_as_html.

[Rails Smith]

not bbedit but may be helpful

# brew install cmark

# cmark -t html src.md > dst.html

if you are really interested in the markdown details:

# brew install markdownlint-cli

# markdownlint src.md > errors-md.txt 2>&1