A function to pull markdown documents down (from Dropbox in my case) and convert them to HTML and return the HTML text. It requires the excellent markdown.converter.js (https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/) library.

md2html.js

/**
 * Created with PyCharm.
 * User: ntrepid8
 * Date: 9/9/13
 * Time: 4:55 PM
 */

// Markdown Converter get it at https://code.google.com/p/pagedown/
var converter = new Markdown.Converter();

var md2html = (function(){
    var m = {};
    m.get = function(url, success, error){
        $.ajax({
            url: url,
            type: 'GET',
            success: function(data){
                if (success){
                    success(converter.makeHtml(data))
                }
            },
            error: function(jqxhr, textStatus, error){
                if (error){error(jqxhr, textStatus, error)}
            }
        })
    };
    return m
}());