Wesley Hill hako

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3 ### (Hashes on right are optional)

Header 4

Header 5

Markdown plus h2 with a custom ID ## {#id-goes-here}

Link back to H2

This is a paragraph, which is text surrounded by whitespace. Paragraphs can be on one

	/*
	* SEP firmware split tool
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2017 xerub
	*/

	#include <fcntl.h>
	#include <stddef.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>

	Result: 1
	Items {
	TemplateId: "BADGE_BATTLE_ATTACK_WON"
	Badge {
	BadgeType: BADGE_BATTLE_ATTACK_WON
	BadgeRanks: 4
	Targets: "\nd\350\007"
	}
	}
	Items {

	require 'java'
	require 'sinatra'

	def keycode(key)
	name = "VK_#{key.upcase}"
	java.awt.event.KeyEvent.const_get(name)
	end

	robot = java.awt.Robot.new