On 29 May 2013, at 13:19, dweinberger wrote:
I've looked around for samples and instructions, but I haven't found
what
I'm looking. Which isn't to say that they're not there, and probably
right
under my nose.
I want to the content of the front BBedit through pandoc with the
appropriate parameters set, so that it turns markdown into html just
the
way I like it. (Preferably, I'd like to save the resulting html as a
file
with the same name as the file in the front window, but with a .html
extension. But this is in parentheses because it's icing on the cake.)
I think we're supposed to do this through a Text Factory, perhaps
using the
run Unix Filter, but I can't figure out how to do it. Are there
samples
that use command line apps in similar ways?
I don't know if this is the "right" way to think about it, but I always
think of Unix Filters as "I want to do something and change the file
that I am working on" but I think of "Scripts" as "I want to take this
file and do something else to it.
For example: if I want to change the current document so that its
content has been processed with 'sort -u | sed G' then I'd use a Unix
Filter, but if I wanted to take the current document and convert it to
Markdown, then I'd use a "Script".
The BBEdit user manual has information on this around page 318.
(I've installed markdown to html scripts that work fine. I'm looking
for a
little more control. Plus, pandoc will also convert markdown to rtf,
which
I occasionally need.)
Here's a very simple example which uses multimarkdown to convert the
current file to HTML
#!/bin/zsh -f
INPUT_FILE="$BB_DOC_PATH"
OUTPUT_FILE="$INPUT_FILE:r.html"
multimarkdown --extensions --smart --process-html --to=html
--output="$OUTPUT_FILENAME" "$INPUT_FILE"
exit
save that as "MMD to HTML.sh" and put it in the "/Application
Support/BBEdit/Scripts/" folder and it will appear in your Scripts menu.
There's a much more complicated version of this (it does a lot of error
checking, as well as letting you specify what app should open the file
that you create) available as "MMD to HTML.zsh" at
https://github.com/tjluoma/bbedit
but the above version is a (*ahem*) bare bones example of how you can do
it. Search the user manual for BB_DOC_PATH for more.
TjL
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