Application: Pandoc

What it is:

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format
toanother, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX; and it
can write plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX,
ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo,
MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide shows.

Features:

# Pandoc's enhanced version of markdown includes syntax for footnotes,
tables, flexible ordered lists, definition lists, delimited code
blocks, superscript, subscript, strikeout, title blocks, automatic
tables of contents, embedded LaTeX math, and markdown inside HTML block
elements.  (These enhancements can be disabled if a drop-in replacement
for `Markdown.pl` is desired.)

# In contrast to most existing tools for converting markdown to HTML,
which use regex substitutions, Pandoc has a modular design: it consists
of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a
native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which
convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding
an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer.

# This package contains the pandoc tool itself, and the wrapper script
markdown2pdf for converting markdown documents to PDFs via LaTeX
(requires texlive-latex-extra) or XeLaTeX (requires texlive-xetex).

To know more about:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

To install in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install pandoc

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