Formatting converter for MD <> Wikitext <> HTML <> other markup

[jwfxpr]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a developer committed to good documentation, I am often moving text between various markup styles. This can be a laborious and time-consuming process, with few easily accessible tools available.

Describe the solution you'd like A simple tool where text can be pasted and edited in a text box in one markup style, and (assuming input is valid) immediately output in the selected markup in another text box.

My personal use case would most heavily use markdown and mediawiki wikitext, and so I would personally prefer these formats to be prioritised. However, I can see that a wide variety of markups would be useful, e.g. (La)TeX, RTF, Textile, etc.

Describe alternatives you've considered The only reliable online tool for this that I know of is Pandoc Online. A local installation of pandoc can also be used, but this is useless for editing on-the-fly or editing and converting small snippets (such as when updating a section of text on several platforms at once).

Additional context

• 12-year-old Stack Overflow question concerning this problem, with no solutions except those discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3554609/are-there-any-tools-to-convert-markdown-to-wiki-text-in-other-formats

• Pandoc can be redistributed under the GPL, and can be used as a Haskel library to integrate the functionality into an application. This may be a fast way to implement this feature.

[veler]

Thanks for the suggestion, I added this to the 2.0 milestone. :)