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Sun May 17 01:43:50 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` Evening Geminauts! I've created another Gemini tool, they're lots of fun.This one takes Markdown files and converts them into the Geminitext format. I've heard some people mention something like thison the mailing list before, and I wanted to make it, so hear yougo! Hope it can be used well. My ideal usage was to allow for easy bi-hosting of blogs. Oftenblogs are written in Markdown, and then transformed with toolslike Jekyll. md2gemini could transform those markdown files intofiles ready to host on Gemini. It could even be part of a CGI script,to convert files on the fly. In my opinion, its "killer feature" is that it supports markdown tables,converting them into Unicode or ASCII tables instead. It can also stripJekyll front matter [0] from files, which I hope will make bi-hosting withJekyll easier. [0] https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/ Obviously markdown and gemini are not directly compatible. When thingsin markdown don't apply to gemini, I just left them in plain text.This applies to indented lists, block quotes, inline code, etc.There was discussion earlier about footnote links, which is something I planto support, but for now this code just takes inline links and converts theminto gemini links, splitting up the paragraph. It's available at https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/md2geminiLet me know what you think! makeworld