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1. roxolo+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-05 13:08:27
I’d highly recommend pandoc[0] if you need markdown conversion. Basically converts from everything and any markdown style to everything else. And then for clipboard just use `| pbcopy` on a Mac or `| xsel -ib`. Full command on a Mac would just be `pandoc README.md -t html | pbcopy`. If you want a docx you can get that too.

0: https://pandoc.org/

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2. letien+E3[view] [source] 2026-02-05 13:33:06
>>roxolo+(OP)
I need the rendered content, not the plain text HTML. As mentioned in the README, I used pandoc in a previous version of the tool, but its output isn’t good looking for my use case.
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3. naikro+Qi[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-05 15:04:09
>>letien+E3
> I need the rendered content

what do you mean, here? you rasterize the markdown into an image?

[edit] yes he rasterizes the markdown into an image

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4. letien+Tm[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-05 15:22:19
>>naikro+Qi
Please read the README. The tool turns Markdown into NSPasteboard on Mac, or CF_HTML on Windows, so that when you press Cmd/Ctrl-P onto supported applications (Teams, Word, Google Docs), you get something similar to how Github would display the Markdown in the browser.
5. cspete+GK[view] [source] 2026-02-05 17:32:06
>>roxolo+(OP)
Bonus, xclip can be directed provide the rich text directly to the clipboard (op this might offer you a solution that is usable as text by your recipients):

`cat something.md | pandoc -f gfm -t html | xclip -selection clipboard -t text/html`

other output type targets also available, check xclip docs

my small experience with Wayland suggested this sort of thing might be more difficult there, but dunno

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