This is a cool blog post about converting blog posts into a Word document for nicer book printing. Maybe Micro.blog could use a .docx export?
This is a cool blog post about converting blog posts into a Word document for nicer book printing. Maybe Micro.blog could use a .docx export?
@manton Highland 2 is another possibility. Written by screenwriter and published novelist John August. Its format is stored as plain text, as it should be. I believe it uses a modified Markdown.
@renevanbelzen We also need Markdown export, which is really probably the next thing to do and could work with Highland and other tools.
@manton Pandoc is a kickass tool. We use it for converting my manuscripts from docx to markdown to EPUB.
@manton On a similar note, could Markdown export if implemented be used in the future in addition to, or in replace of, the current archive to GitHub solution?
@manton love this idea and the markdown intermediate step, too
@manton what I love about micro.blog is that I can write my serious posts in markdown elsewhere (for me: Ulysses, but it doesn't matter where) and very simply and easily push through to my blog. If one day I wanted to print a book I'd just go from the source. My point is that in a good content strategy the blog would be a channel, not the primary source. If you have a docx export would users expect an import? You'd be biting into one massive painful pie.
@ryanmoore be interesting to know how many people use native micro blog versus a third party for composition.
@ryanmoore Yeah, import would be difficult and not worth it. For my blog, the closest thing to the “source” is Micro.blog, because I post with multiple apps and not everything is in Ulysses. Export and import for apps like Day One is probably more useful than Word.
@manton … and ‘Mars Edit’ - like you - my posts come from all over the place - including a couple of imports … but a full Mars Edit synch picks everything up …
@manton Blaine’s atJSON might be useful here github.com/condenast... — designed for roundtripping between multiple formats
His presentation at ToolsForThought Interchange was awesome blog.fission.codes/tools-for...