On Sun, Jan 28, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Bob Sharp wrote:
> Have some documents downloaded from *GitHub*.   
> They have the **.md **extension, but cannot read them on anything I
> have on my *Windows 10pro* system.> 
> Would ideally like to use a converter, that runs on my system, to
> change the files to **.pdf **> (perhaps even in a batch-mode to work on all files in a folder ?) 
> 
> Would prefer an* OpenSource* application. 
> 
> cheers 

Hi Bob,

.md files are just plain text (that is, just unicode (or ascii)
character codes; that's it). You can open .md files in
  * Notepad (though Notepad in particular may not display line breaks
    correctly),
  * your web browser (though, oddly, Firefox may not be set up out of
    the box to recognize .md files as the plain text that they are)
  * LibreOffice

  * As James recommends, NotePad++, a text-editor app, the specific
    purpose of which is for writing plain text files.
The easiest way to read markdown (.md) files is to just open them up and
read them with one of the apps listed above. But you can also process an
.md file into a .html file using pandoc, and then open the resulting
html file in your web browser.
You could also install a LaTeX distribution, which contains the
necessary tools to allow pandoc to convert the .md file into a .pdf
file. And then run pandoc on the .md to get the .pdf file out.
If you install a LaTeX distribution, and install Pandoc, there may be a
small graphical app to help you convert documents, but I'm not familiar
with such a thing. On GNU/Linux, it's most typical to just open a
terminal and run the pandoc command on the file in question, thus
creating the output file in the same directory.

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