What is the easiest way to convert the first kind of Markdown into the second kind of Markdown?
Headline 1 ========== Some text Subheadline 1 ------------- More text Headline 2 ========== Even more text into
# Headline 1 # Some text ## Subheadline 1 ## More text # Headline 2 # Even more text Linux or Mac OS X tools are preferred.
If you don't care about the #s at the ends of lines, you can do
pandoc -f markdown -t markdown --atx-headers See the pandoc documentation section on this for more.
Do you have access to a multi-line capable GREP? The following works inside TextPad (which, admittedly, is a Windows program):
Search for
^(.+)\n=+$ replace with
# \1 # and similar lines for heading #2. Notation of hard return in the find expression and of Insert Numbered Group in the replacement may differ per software.
