On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, David Kendal wrote: > >> On 4 Mar 2011, at 17:26, Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Should I be redirecting the output to a file, like: >> > >> > markdown --html4tags convert-this.txt > convert-this.html >> >> Yes. > > Cool! Thanks. BTW, does it say as much in the Markdown site? Am I > blind in one eye, and can't see WAS out of the other? :) >
Markdown outputs to 'stdout', which implies that basic command line constructs will work. I imagine that if you're calling markdown from the command line, it is assumed you know and understand this. However, if the docs nowhere say markdown outputs to stdout, then that may be an oversight. On the other hand, markdown is generally considered a library first and a command line script second. In other words, it is primarily meant to be called from other code (cgi script, web framework, etc) and the command line feature is a helpful afterthought. That means documentation of the command line features may suffer a little. In my personal observation, this applies to all the various implementations, although some are better than others. -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
