I want to convert text written in Markdown to Rich Text on Ubuntu 13.04. I could not find any solution on the web, except for one Mac OS X script.
How can I do that on Ubuntu 13.04? Preferably in the browser.
P.S. I don't need it the other way, the text gets always written in Markdown and needs to get transformed to rich text.
One alternative is http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ which is in the repos,
sudo apt-get install pandoc
Then you can take your markdown file and convert it to rtf, or a variety of other formats with,
pandoc -s -f markdown -t rtf -o file.rtf file.txt
The -s switch is for standalone, so that it doesn't just create an rtf fragment. There are also a variety of other useful switches such as -S for smart quotes. I use it all the time to create epub and pdf files.
It would also be a good idea to check out the documentation on their site, since the pandoc markdown format supports several extensions.
