Pete petersgiles

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

Updated 10 February 2015 (added link to Monster Traits and Actions)

This is the third in my series of conversion documents for D&D 5th Edition. (You can find the one for Next here and the one for 3.5/3E/Pathfinder here.) I created this document by comparing the 5E versions of monsters from the Monster Manual with their 2E counterparts. I also referred to two sources for converting monsters from 2E to 3E: Wizards’ official

Howto Install clamav on OSX with brew

$ brew install clamav
$ cd /usr/local/etc/clamav
$ cp freshclam.conf.sample freshclam.conf

Open freshclam.conf and comment the "Example" line:

1.0 SAVAGE PARANOIA

Stay Alert! - Trust No one! - Keep your laser handy!

1.1 The Setting

May we recommend "Paranoia XP" from Mongoose Publishing. Go read that then come back here. go on... we can wait done? ok, moving on...

	/* GitHub stylesheet for MarkdownPad (http://markdownpad.com) */
	/* Author: Nicolas Hery - http://nicolashery.com */
	/* Version: b13fe65ca28d2e568c6ed5d7f06581183df8f2ff */
	/* Source: https://github.com/nicolahery/markdownpad-github */

	/* RESET
	=============================================================================*/

	html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var, b, u, i, center, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td, article, aside, canvas, details, embed, figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary, time, mark, audio, video {
	margin: 0;

	# Replace:
	# DATABASE
	# NAMED
	# APPLICATION NAME
	# hostheadername
	# DOMAIN\USER
	# DOMAIN\SP_FARM_ACCOUNT
	# PATHNAME
	# SITE COLLECTION NAME
	# DIRECTORYPORT

	# modules
	Import-Module ActiveDirectory
	if((Get-PSSnapin 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null){Add-PSSnapin 'Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell'}


	# new service account
	$UserName = "SharePoint Service User Wiki"
	$UserUPN = "[email protected]"
	$UserSam = "sa-spwiki"
	$UserPassword = "pass."

	const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
	const path = require('path')
	const url = require('url')

	// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
	// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
	let win

	function createWindow () {
	// Create the browser window.

	$reg = @{
	Path = 'Registry::HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments'
	Name = 'SaveZoneInformation'
	PropertyType = 'DWORD'
	Value = 1
	}

	if (-not (Test-Path -Path $reg.Path)) {
	New-Item $reg.Path
	}

	# $profile to find path i.e. NuGet_profile.ps1

	$opt = (Get-Host).PrivateData
	$opt.WarningBackgroundColor = "Orange"
	$opt.WarningForegroundColor = "White"
	$opt.ErrorBackgroundColor = "Red"
	$opt.ErrorForegroundColor = "White"