I am looking for a tool or set of tools to convert between file formats D and M where
- D is a format handled by MSWord, in order of preference, docx, doc, rtf
- M is a lightweight markup, such as markdown, textile, txt2tags, it can be an esoteric one
- there is a way to generate html from M
- conversion is two-way, it's done both from D to M, and from M to D
- utf-8 encoding is handled properly
- the content is simple, paragraphs, some simple formatting like bold and italics, maybe lists
- the tools are platform-independent
What I've found so far
- TeX, LaTeX -- too heavyweight
-
docx2txt -- too lightweight, it supports no formatting at all
- html -- MSWord produces bloated html
- a few one-way conversions, like doc to mediawiki,
UPDATE:
The use case is a document workflow between technical and non-technical people
- I, the technical guy edit a document in plain text, put it into version control, etc.
- I send it to my manager or other non-technical people
- They add comments, make changes to it using their Word, then they send it back to me
- I want to simply grok their changes, make my changes, put it into version control, without having to use Word
I think that Pandoc much more than meet all requirements.
http://pandoc.org
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