Convert Markdown text to RTF, using Ruby and Pandoc?
- by niteshade
Playing with Ruby and Ruby-Pandoc. Seems like a nice tool, if I can get it to work.
I'd like to convert some Markdown text (with embedded lists and other fanciness) to Rich Text. Here's the text I'm converting:
Title
===
This is a paragraph. Hallelujah.
Here comes a nested list.
---
* List item 1
* List item 1.1
* List item 1.2
* List item 2
* List item 2.1
Here's my Ruby code...
require 'pandoc-ruby'
input = File.read(test.md)
converter = PandocRuby.new(input, from: :markdown, to: :rtf)
puts converter.convert
... which (after saving the output to a file) produces a document without anything but a title:
Here's the code of the RTF file:
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa180 \li0 \fi0 \b \fs36 Title\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa180 \li0 \fi0 This is a paragraph. Hallelujah.\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa180 \li0 \fi0 \b \fs32 Here comes a nested list.\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa0 \li360 \fi-360 \bullet \tx360\tab List item 1\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa0 \li360 \fi-360 \bullet \tx360\tab List item 1.1\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa0 \li360 \fi-360 \bullet \tx360\tab List item 1.2\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa0 \li360 \fi-360 \bullet \tx360\tab List item 2\par}
{\pard \ql \f0 \sa0 \li360 \fi-360 \bullet \tx360\tab List item 2.1\sa180\par}
In addition, even if it did show up in my RTF viewer (Mac TextEdit), the RTF code seems to have lost all list nesting. I don't know how to diagnose this, whether I have not stated necessary header information or something in Ruby-Pandoc.
Thanks in advance!
