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Various online CSV to Markdown converters: best is Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/03

TL;DR: use Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com as it has the most features.

A few tools that help converting CSV (with separators like comma, semicolon and tab) to Markdown online:

  1. [Archive.cs] Markdown Table Maker
    • Supports:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Auto detection of separator
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
    • Does not support:
      • Quote characters
  2. [WayBack] CSV to Markdown Table Generator — Donat Studios
    • Supports:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
    • Does not support:
      • Quote characters
  3. [WayBack] Markdown Tables generator – TablesGenerator.com
    • Supports auto detection of:
      • Use first line as headers
      • Tab separated
      • Comma separated
      • Semicolon separated
      • Quote characters

–jeroen

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Babelmark 2 online Markdown checker

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/07

Some markdown tools have their own page online allowing you to experiment with their rendering; [WayBack] markdown-it demo is one of them.

I was looking for a page showing the renderings of many engines in order to improve my markdown writing skills.

I found the [WayBack] babelmark2 online markdown checker, which works great.

  • It runs the markdown through various processors showing either the log with HTML produced, or a view of the rendered output.
  • It has one limitation: 1000 characters of markdown text so the markdown rendering servers will not get overloaded.

Documentation is at [WayBack] Babelmark 2 – FAQ.

In addition, this is also very useful: [WayBack] markdownlint demo Demo for [WayBack] GitHub – DavidAnson/markdownlint: A Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.

Note that the Visual Studio Code markdownlint support, uses the above markdownlint, which is a different one than the Ruby based [WayBack] GitHub – markdownlint/markdownlint: Markdown lint tool.

Both are far easier to use than [WayBack] GitHub – michelf/mdtest: Test suite for Markdown implementations.

Via

–jeroen

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Online markup conversion from markdown to mediawiki: pandoc

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/06

Since Mediawiki needs an extension to display Markdown, and many MediaWiki installations do not have that extension, I was looking for an online conversion from markdown to MediaWiki markup.

Luckily the Pandoc try has this conversion: [WayBack] Try pandoc! Markdown(pandoc) -> MediaWiki

These links helped me get there:

–jeroen

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Two reasons I love Visual Studio Code over Atom.io: built-in markdown support and vscode-markdown; just watch the CHANGELOG.md at master · neilsustc/vscode-markdown · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/03

Boy, I love this so much: [WayBack] vscode-markdown/CHANGELOG.md at master · neilsustc/vscode-markdown · GitHub

Just a few of the screen videos:

  • Formula support
  • Table of Contents (ToC) support including leaving out individual headings:
  • On the fly list renumbering:
  • Image reference completion including image preview:

–jeroen

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Finding out why Github doesn’t render your reStructuredText as expected

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13

One of the cool Github features is that it renders reStructuredText (and other markup documents like markdown).

Often however, your .rst file on GitHub looks very differently on GitHub as your local render. Heck: sometimes Github will not even render it at all.

 

–jeroen

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YouTube videos in Markdown – via Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28

Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg” trick:

Youtube videos

They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE
" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg" 
alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>

Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:

[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)

Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub

Gif using gifs.com

If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.

I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif

via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)

–jeroen

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Comparison of Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/09

This is a very good comparison of how to use reStructuredText and Markdown well for rendering at GitHub: [WayBack] Common markup for Markdown and reStructuredText · GitHub.

It is being updated by Alex Dupuy over time at https://gist.github.com/dupuy/1855764 and has two sections:

And it refers to http://pandoc.org/try/ which I had missed when starting with reStructuredText a long time ago.

Examples in there are actually more useful to me than these reStructuredText ones:

–jeroen

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If only there was a plugin to convert a Google Suite Document into Markdown S…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/29

via If only there was a plugin to convert a Google Suite Document into Markdown Syntax… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ [WayBack]

GitHub – mangini/gdocs2md: Convert a Google Drive Document to the Markdown format, suitable for publishing. [WayBack]

In the gapps language: Apps Script  |  Google Developers

Maybe one day – when I use Google Docs more often – I make a reStructuredText version

–jeroen

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Printing from the Atom editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/04

Atom is a great editor, but printing from it is still lacking, even though the issue has been opened again.

There is export-html, but it only prints the current source code, not the built-in Markdown Preview or add-on reStructuredText Preview Pandoc packages “Toggle Preview” views.

By name print-atom looks promising, but contrary to the advertised “Print current atom window using print dialog”, it prints the whole Atom UI, which is of no use at all.

The little red icon isn't an adornment. Even though it doesn't look like a button: It's clickable!

The little red icon isn’t an adornment. Even though it doesn’t look like a button: It’s clickable!

Then there is broadcast which at first only worked for me in 1.6.2 but not in 1.7.2. I even removed the whole ~/.atom directory to get it working: to no avail. It finally occurred to me that in the lower right there was a tiny red icon (which was blue in 1.6.2).

Below is the process to fix broadcast, and after that you can live-view from your web browser through http://localhost:8000 either of the rendered source text in the Atom editor, or the Preview pane in the Atom editor.

Even though hardly documented, these are the broadcast settings:

Only enable

Only enable “Broadcast To Others” if you want to access port 8000 from another machine.

Getting broadcast to work again

  • wasn’t caused by changes in the theming between 1.6.2 and 1.7.2 (where lots of colours changed)
  • wasn’t just an adornment: it’s in fact clickable

As soon as you click it you see this in the right pane:

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Lightweight Markup: Markdown, reStructuredText, MediaWiki, AsciiDoc, Org-mode – Hyperpolyglot

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/03

A great table with comparison of various constructs in Lightweight Markup: Markdown, reStructuredText, MediaWiki, AsciiDoc, Org-mode – Hyperpolyglot

It works much better than the examples in Lightweight markup language – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (which does include more languages).

As I’ve switched to “all source – including docs – should be in text format” years ago, I’m a heavy markdown user, but also use reStructuredText, so this table is of great help.

Reminder to self: reStructuredText does not support strikethrough out of the box.

–jeroen

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