Markdown to Textile Markup Converter

Real-world use cases

• Paste a pull-request description into a Redmine issue

  You wrote a clean PR body in GitHub Markdown, a heading, a bullet list of changes, a fenced diff. The project tracks work in Redmine and wants the same write-up on the linked issue, but pasting it raw leaves hashes and asterisks everywhere. Drop it into the left pane, copy the Textile, and the issue now shows a real heading, a real list and a bc. code block instead of broken symbols.

• Convert an LLM answer for a Redmine wiki page

  ChatGPT or Claude hands you a tidy Markdown answer with headings, steps and code samples. Your team keeps its runbooks on a Redmine wiki, which parses Textile. Convert once and paste, and the at-sign inline code and the bc. blocks land formatted instead of as a literal backtick soup the next person on call has to clean up by hand.

• Move a README section into a project wiki

  A chunk of your repository README, install steps and links to docs, needs to live on the Redmine or Trac wiki so non-engineers can read it. The Markdown links become the Textile quote-and-colon form and the bullet list becomes asterisk bullets, so the whole section renders natively without you retyping a single line by hand.

• Migrate notes off a Markdown editor into a Textile CMS

  You drafted release notes in a Markdown editor, then realised the CMS behind your changelog stores Textile. Rather than rewrite every heading and link, paste the draft through the converter, copy the Textile, and the headings, emphasis and links all land in the markup the CMS expects on the first save.

Common pitfalls

• Expecting Textile to bold double-asterisk text. In Textile a single asterisk is bold, so leaving double asterisks renders a stray asterisk on each side. The converter rewrites the pair to one, so paste the converted output rather than the raw Markdown.

• Keeping the language tag on a fenced block and expecting Redmine to highlight it. The portable Textile block-code marker is a plain bc. with no language. The converter drops the tag for you, and a stray language word left in the markup just becomes part of the code text.

• Forgetting that a Textile link puts the label in quotes before a colon and the URL. People convert by hand and leave the Markdown bracket-and-parenthesis form, which Textile then prints literally. The tool emits the quote-then-colon form so a single pass is correct.

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