Strange output using Markdown export plug-in

[James Moore]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:31 PM, John Laudun wrote:

>
> I have found Markdown to be a real boon when it comes not only to  
> drafting
> materials for the web, but also for sending more complex messages  
> by e-mail.
> Being able to write in OO and then export to Markdown is fantastic.  
> That
> said, when I use the "smart quotes" option under Convert in the  
> services
> menu -- this may be a DevonTechnologies service -- I find that the  
> Markdown
> plug-in converts those quotes to gibberish, consistent gibberish, but
> gibberish. For example, a single close curly quotation mark -- used  
> in a
> contraction like "don't" becomes "’."
>

This sounds like an encoding problem. Your Outliner file should be  
passing through the export system in UTF. Off-hand I don't know how  
the Markdown plugin is configured to export.

It would be useful to find out exactly which characters that service  
is inserting into the Outline. Can you send a sample Outliner file  
with curly-quotes in it to omnioutliner at omnigroup.com?

> Has anybody else seen this? How hard is it to open up a plug-in and  
> edit it?
> I've been wanting to teach myself something about plug-ins. Is this my
> chance?


That plugin should be pretty straight forward since it's exporting  
plain text. You'll want to grab a copy of the SDK from our Extras page

<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/extras/>

--
-James

Technical Support Engineer
The Omni Group