Re: Easy tool for quick conversions?

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr-bM6h3K5UM15l57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>]

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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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