> 2. Site (Markdown seems preferred, but that's a lot of work since it doesn't > resemble html. Perhaps we could use raw html instead and look at migrating > pages one at a time, or wait for someone at Apache to write a Confluence -> > markdown converter)
I was reading about markdown last week. ======================================== For any markup that is not covered by Markdown’s syntax, you simply use HTML itself. There’s no need to preface it or delimit it to indicate that you’re switching from Markdown to HTML; you just use the tags. The only restrictions are that block-level HTML elements — e.g. <div>, <table>, <pre>, <p>, etc. — must be separated from surrounding content by blank lines, and the start and end tags of the block should not be indented with tabs or spaces. Markdown is smart enough not to add extra (unwanted) <p> tags around HTML block-level tags. ======================================== So you can start by making each markdown page raw html and convert it as desired. Or you can take a further step and convert that into markdown: ======================================== Also, Aaron's [html2text][] is a very handy (and free) utility for turning HTML into Markdown-formatted plain text. [html2text]: http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/ ========================================
