Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

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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