Recast MS Word HTML export as Markdown

Very basic (dirty regex stuff) CLI conversion tool for longer texts written in node.js. Intended as a first step of a longer cleanup (eg. when editorial process goes on in Word, but it's needed to convert it into plaintext).

• preserves p, h1, i, b tags as their markdown equivalents
  • div is considered to be same as p
• splits text into chapters (delimited by h1 headers)
• preserves footnotes and fixes their links to Multimarkdown syntax
  • footnote link: [^num]
  • footnote text: [num]: text
• does not expect tables and lists (not needed yet)

Zero % test coverage, hence it's not submitted into npm.

Use

git clone https://github.com/next-book/recast-word-html.git recast-word-html
cd recast-word-html
npm install
npm link
recast --src=path/to/file.html

Output folder defaults to ./out, change it via --out=path param.

Convert MS Word HTML export into UTF-8 before using this tool.