On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Waylan Limberg wrote: > 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.
Maybe so ... > 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. I didn't get the impression from the Markdown site that Markdown was "generally considered a library". That's good to know! Thanks for the heads-up! -- Duke _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
