<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 31, 2005, at 12:27 PM, zer0halo wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">But does the original author write it using markup, or do you insert</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">the markup as you edit? If the latter, then aren't you "writing" as</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">well?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yea, I just take the text and add markup. It's easier than creating the XHTML by hand. I generally am not terribly aware of the subject matter of the text, so I hesitate to use "writing" to describe what I'm doing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">Speaking of Word, one of those "projects" on my list is to write a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">Word macro that converts basic Word formatting (bold/italics, headers,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">bullets, etc.) to Textile (or Markdown) automatically. Or maybe</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">there's already one out there--I haven't really looked.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I have not seen one but I would love such a macro. Currently I do a Word export to HTML, use Dreamweaver's clean Word HTML macro, then convert that to Markdown with html2text.py. It's not <I>that</I> clean when I'm done but is still helpful for large documents.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Since an XHTML > Markdown script exists, you might be better off doing a Word > XHTML macro, that just output simple XHTML with no formatting that will translate easily into markup. Then you could use that XHTML for a lot of other things, Markdown, or write a XHTML > Textile script. Perhaps a Word > Clean XHTML macro exists already...?</DIV></BODY></HTML>