I tweaked the SimplenoteSync script at the suggestion of a user, and it should work on *nix systems (more or less). The date synchronization may not work, and I am open to suggestions on how to improve it.

Please let me know if it works for you.

http://github.com/fletcher/SimplenoteSync

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More information here:

http://fletcherpenney.net/2009/09/multimarkdown_as_cms

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In the last few months, I have:

• rewritten the utility scripts to be much more compatible across operating systems, and more easily called from the command line or from other applications

• completely rewritten the TextMate bundle

• migrated everything to github

• added new XSLT features - beamer for LaTeX, the beginnings of a customizable RTF export via XSLT, and the beginnings of an XSLT to convert HTML back into MultiMarkdown

• rebuilt the mac drag and drop apps to use the new utility scripts

Of note, there have not been any major changes to the syntax lately.

So, I think it’s time to finalize everything that exists, fix any more bugs that can be found, and slap a 2.0 label on it. To help make that happen, I am simply asking that everyone let me know of any issues they find. Email, or the MMD discussion list is fine, but the best way is to use the github site to submit issues:

http://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown/issues for MMD-related issues, or the various project specific pages (e.g. for the TextMate bundle, etc).

I welcome your input!

Thanks,

Fletcher

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1. the beamer.xslt file - create use the LaTeX beamer class to generate PDF slideshows from MMD files. Supported metadata includes:

   Title
  Subtitle
  author
  Affiliation
  theme (uses a beamer-theme)
  graphic (use a graphic as a logo)

   Full docs are pending (I hope), but experiment. h1 is a part and lists an outline, h2 is section, h3 subsection, h4 slide, h5 is only displayed in handout version

 2. I have started an XSLT to convert HTML to RTF. This is **really** basic and not ready for prime time. It needs work. It needs input from other people. I will probably not finish this on my own. Use the mmd2rtf.pl command to access this, rather than the multimarkdown2rtf.pl (which still uses apple's textutil)

  
Check it out!

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what_is_mmd.pdf Download this file

MultiMarkdown is sort of an abstract concept - it can be tough for people to get what it's for if they've never heard of it. I suspect there are a bunch of people out there who know that Microsoft Word is not the write way to craft a quality document, but they're not really sure of the alternatives.
 
 
I wanted to put something together to try and explain what it is. This is my first draft. It also demonstrates the new XSLT that creates beamer presentations from a MMD document (hopefully, no more Powerpoint/Keynote for me!)
 
If this interests you, take a look at the attached pdf slide show, and give me feedback, corrections, suggestions, rewrites, whatever!
 
 
Thanks!!
 
F-
 
 

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beamer.pdf Download this file

I am finishing up an XSLT and a modified theme for Beamer to allow a MMD text file to be converted into a PDF slideshow. To me, this would likely be much easier (and cheaper) than Powerpoint or Keynote, and might possibly generate better output.
 
We'll see.
 
Check out the attached example, but I recommend you download it to really see what it looks like.  The embedded version doesn't quite look right.
 

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