Re: MediaWiki to Markdown conversion

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

On 4/15/20 7:42 AM, sal wrote:
> So, do you see the outcome table ok?
> Maybe I'm doing wrong more than just one thing...
> What did you use to see it?
> I go to an online markdown viewer (like https://markdownlivepreview.com/ 
> or any other),
> I paste the outcome there and see the table is not properly converted.

I open it up as a text file.  No viewer used.  ;)

There's no 'official' table spec in Markdown, just whatever table each 
variant has supported, so if you're using a viewer (or a different 
converter) you need to match the variant that viewer supports.

> I tested that command, but again no success with the table.
> If there are different ways to convert tables, is that documented somewhere?

<https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables>

> Thanks again. Once I get this thing done, I still will have to convert 
> it to "remarkup",
> which is used by Phabricator software.
> Unfortunately I have not find any tool to convert directly from 
> MediaWiki to ReMarkUp.

Looks like remarkup uses what Pandoc calls 'Pipe Tables', so you may want:

```
pandoc source -f mediawiki -t 
markdown-simple_tables+pipe_tables-multiline_tables -o outcome
```

Daniel T. Staal

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