Have the same README both in Markdown and reStructuredText

Question

I have a project hosted on GitHub. For this I have written my README using the Markdown syntax in order to have it nicely formatted on GitHub.

As my project is in Py

Answer 1

I ran into this problem and solved it with the two following bash scripts.

Note that I have LaTeX bundled into my Markdown.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
  echo "$0 file.md"
  exit;
fi

filename=$(basename "$1")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"

if [ "$extension" = "md" ]; then
  rst=".rst"
  pandoc $1 -o $filename$rst
fi

Its also useful to convert to html. md2html:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
  echo "$0 file.md "
  exit;
fi

filename=$(basename "$1")
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"

if [ "$extension" = "md" ]; then
  html=".html"
  if [ -z $2 ]; then
    # if no css
    pandoc -s -S --mathjax --highlight-style pygments $1 -o $filename$html
  else
    pandoc -s -S --mathjax --highlight-style pygments -c $2 $1 -o $filename$html
  fi
fi

I hope that helps