neocotic/template — Issue #82: Get Selection in Markdown
Author: devtime
Created: 2012-03-06 14:49:34+00:00
State: open

For capturing article snippets (for republication, or just taking notes), a feature to get the selection in Markdown format would be incredibly useful.

Ideally, the Markdown would include:
* Bold, italic and other text formatting
* Links
* Image references
* Tables

Beside html2text, there's the [kramdown](http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/) Ruby library, which since the 0.9.0 version also converts an HTML document into a kramdown (Markdown + some extensions) document.

Kramdown is my favorite Markdown converter, mainly because it also supports IDs and tables. The tables format is compatible with the MultiMarkdown one.