Convert Textile Markup to Markdown?

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Published on 2010-05-15T07:35:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 7:44 UTC
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I'm merging legacy Systems and some components use Markdown and others use Textile formatting. This is extremely confusing to my users. Therefore I want to standardize on Markdown.

Is there a way to convert at least the Bulk of Textile formatting to markdown automatically?

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