Easy tool for quick conversions?

Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Joseph Reagle]

I sometimes want to quickly convert one format to another within my clipboard manager. For example, Wikimedia Commons can give you the HTML or BBCode to embed an image, but I prefer markdown.
For this, I usually go to <https://pandoc.org/try/>, but I don't see support for parameters in its URL. (If it did, I could define some clipboard manager shortcuts to invoke common conversions via the web.)  Or I sometimes want to convert from reference links to inline links or the reverse.

I could write a script, making use of pbcopy/pbpaste, but was wondering what others do for these use cases?

—Joseph

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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Daniel Staal]

On 12/22/22 5:13 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> I sometimes want to quickly convert one format to another within my 
> clipboard manager. For example, Wikimedia Commons can give you the HTML 
> or BBCode to embed an image, but I prefer markdown.
> For this, I usually go to <https://pandoc.org/try/>, but I don't see 
> support for parameters in its URL. (If it did, I could define some 
> clipboard manager shortcuts to invoke common conversions via the web.)  
> Or I sometimes want to convert from reference links to inline links or 
> the reverse.
> 
> I could write a script, making use of pbcopy/pbpaste, but was wondering 
> what others do for these use cases?
> 
> —Joseph
> 

As a Mac user, I use BBEdit.  Paste in, and then feed to a short script 
that reads the source language from the BBEdit lang.

I have several different scripts in the BBEdit scripts folder that I can 
apply, with different options.

Daniel T. Staal

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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

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I do exactly this with the Alfred workflow tool  -
https://www.alfredapp.com/.

I have a variety of workflows setup for various conversions.  Here's one
for markdown->RTF, for pasting rich text into Office.

pbpaste | pandoc --standalone --from=markdown --to=rtf --output=- | pbcopy


Leonard

On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 7:14 PM Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 12/22/22 5:13 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
> > I sometimes want to quickly convert one format to another within my
> > clipboard manager. For example, Wikimedia Commons can give you the HTML
> > or BBCode to embed an image, but I prefer markdown.
> > For this, I usually go to <https://pandoc.org/try/>, but I don't see
> > support for parameters in its URL. (If it did, I could define some
> > clipboard manager shortcuts to invoke common conversions via the web.)
> > Or I sometimes want to convert from reference links to inline links or
> > the reverse.
> >
> > I could write a script, making use of pbcopy/pbpaste, but was wondering
> > what others do for these use cases?
> >
> > —Joseph
> >
>
> As a Mac user, I use BBEdit.  Paste in, and then feed to a short script
> that reads the source language from the BBEdit lang.
>
> I have several different scripts in the BBEdit scripts folder that I can
> apply, with different options.
>
> Daniel T. Staal
>
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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[John MacFarlane]

pandoc.org/try does support parameters, e.g.

https://pandoc.org/try/?params=%7B%22text%22%3A%22%22%2C%22to%22%3A%22html5%22%2C%22from%22%3A%22markdown%22%2C%22standalone%22%3Afalse%2C%22embed-resources%22%3Afalse%2C%22table-of-contents%22%3Afalse%2C%22number-sections%22%3Afalse%2C%22citeproc%22%3Afalse%2C%22html-math-method%22%3A%22plain%22%2C%22wrap%22%3A%22auto%22%2C%22highlight-style%22%3Anull%2C%22files%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22template%22%3Anull%7D

value of params is a URI-encoded JSON string representing option settings.


> On Dec 22, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I sometimes want to quickly convert one format to another within my clipboard manager. For example, Wikimedia Commons can give you the HTML or BBCode to embed an image, but I prefer markdown.
> For this, I usually go to <https://pandoc.org/try/>, but I don't see support for parameters in its URL. (If it did, I could define some clipboard manager shortcuts to invoke common conversions via the web.)  Or I sometimes want to convert from reference links to inline links or the reverse.
> 
> I could write a script, making use of pbcopy/pbpaste, but was wondering what others do for these use cases?
> 
> —Joseph
> 
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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Joseph Reagle]

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Thank you all!

John, I didn't think pandoc/try supported parameters because the URL doesn't change after the conversion. Clicking your link below doesn't work for me, but perhaps that's because of email/URL character encoding issues?

On 12/22/22 19:49, John MacFarlane wrote:
> pandoc.org/try does support parameters, e.g.
> 
> https://pandoc.org/try/?params=%7B%22text%22%3A%22%22%2C%22to%22%3A%22html5%22%2C%22from%22%3A%22markdown%22%2C%22standalone%22%3Afalse%2C%22embed-resources%22%3Afalse%2C%22table-of-contents%22%3Afalse%2C%22number-sections%22%3Afalse%2C%22citeproc%22%3Afalse%2C%22html-math-method%22%3A%22plain%22%2C%22wrap%22%3A%22auto%22%2C%22highlight-style%22%3Anull%2C%22files%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22template%22%3Anull%7D
> 
> value of params is a URI-encoded JSON string representing option settings.
> 

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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[John MacFarlane]

Click the "permalink" link on the RH side after conversion, and the URL will change.

> On Dec 23, 2022, at 6:53 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> John, I didn't think pandoc/try supported parameters because the URL doesn't change after the conversion. Clicking your link below doesn't work for me, but perhaps that's because of email/URL character encoding issues?
> 
> On 12/22/22 19:49, John MacFarlane wrote:
>> pandoc.org/try does support parameters, e.g.
>> https://pandoc.org/try/?params=%7B%22text%22%3A%22%22%2C%22to%22%3A%22html5%22%2C%22from%22%3A%22markdown%22%2C%22standalone%22%3Afalse%2C%22embed-resources%22%3Afalse%2C%22table-of-contents%22%3Afalse%2C%22number-sections%22%3Afalse%2C%22citeproc%22%3Afalse%2C%22html-math-method%22%3A%22plain%22%2C%22wrap%22%3A%22auto%22%2C%22highlight-style%22%3Anull%2C%22files%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22template%22%3Anull%7D
>> value of params is a URI-encoded JSON string representing option settings.
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Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Joseph Reagle]

> Click the "permalink" link on the RH side after conversion, and the URL will change.

Thank you. Ultimately, I'd like to make a bookmark with a query shortcut (i.e., `%s` in Chrome).

The following does work:

```
https://pandoc.org/try/?params={"text":"<b>test</b>","to":"markdown","from":"html","standalone":false,"embed-resources":false,"table-of-contents":false,"number-sections":false,"citeproc":false,"html-math-method":"plain","wrap":"auto","highlight-style":null,"files":{},"template":null}
```

More complicated HTML, such as that given by Wikimedia Commons to embed an image doesn't because of character encoding (especially quotes). Not sure if there's a way around this.

```
<a title="Atanu Bose Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0 &lt;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Close_wing_position_mud-puddling_and_peeing_activity_of_Papilio_slateri_(Hewitson,1859)_%E2%80%93_Blue-striped_Mime_(Male).jpg"><img width="128" alt="Close wing position mud-puddling and peeing activity of Papilio slateri (Hewitson,1859) – Blue-striped Mime (Male)" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Close_wing_position_mud-puddling_and_peeing_activity_of_Papilio_slateri_%28Hewitson%2C1859%29_%E2%80%93_Blue-striped_Mime_%28Male%29.jpg/128px-Close_wing_position_mud-puddling_and_peeing_activity_of_Papilio_slateri_%28Hewitson%2C1859%29_%E2%80%93_Blue-striped_Mime_%28Male%29.jpg"></a>
```

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