Any references you could suggest that we could read to prepare for the presentation?
--Don Ellis On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be giving a talk to the St. Louis UNIX Users Group next Wednesday > night about Markdown, a tool I absolutely love. > > You're invited to come. Please do - I think you'll definitely learn a lot. > > Date: Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 > > Time: 6:30 - 9 pm > > Where: 11885 Lackland Rd., St Louis, MO 63146 > > Map: http://g.co/maps/6gg9g > > Directions: http://www.sluug.org/resources/meeting_info/map_graybar.shtml > > Here's the description: > > John Gruber, the inventor of Markdown, describes it this way: > “Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown > allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text > format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML). Thus, > ‘Markdown’ is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) > a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text > formatting to HTML. … The overriding design goal for Markdown’s > formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is > that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as > plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or > formatting instructions.” > > This talk by Scott Granneman & Bill Odom will cover the basics of > Markdown's syntax, key variants of Markdown, tools for composing > Markdown (including vim, of course!), and ways you can easily > transform a plain text file written in Markdown into HTML, JSON, TXT, > LaTeX, man, MediaWiki, Textile, DocBook XML, ODT, EPUB, Slidy and S5 > HTML and JavaScript slide shows, RTF, or even Word! > > If you have any questions, please contact me. Hope to see you there! > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com ~ granneman.tel > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > "No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes > deserves to be called a scholar." > ---Donald Foster -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
