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Converting a Word Document to Markdown in Two Moves

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

The Solution

As it turns out, there are several open-source tools that allow for conversion between file types. Pandoc is one of them, and it's powerful. In fact, pandoc's website says "If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife." But, although pandoc can convert from markdown into .docx, it doesn't work in the other direction.

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[
    {
        "code": 111110,
        "description": "Soybean Farming",
        "sector": {
            "id": 11,
            "description": "Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting"
        },
        "subsector": {
            "id": 111,

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import aiohttp
import asyncio
import polars as pl
import tempfile

async def convert_csv_to_parquet(url: str, output_file: str):
  """
  A script that rapidly streams a CSV url to a parquet file
  
  Args:

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-- Handles hugo-book's `hint` shortcode and converts into a blockquote

incomment = false

function Para(el)
    if el.content[1].text == "{{<" and el.content[3].text == "hint" and el.content[7].text == ">}}"then
        incomment = true
        hint_type = el.content[5].text
        return pandoc.Para(pandoc.Str())
    elseif el.content[1].text == "{{<" and el.content[3].text == "/hint" and el.content[5].text == ">}}" then

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe

class WPR(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = 'Wisconsin Public Radio'
    author         = 'V David Zvenyach'
    description    = 'Daily news from the Wisconsin Public Radio'
    no_stylesheets = True
    compress_news_images = True

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test

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function githubPost() {
  
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.openById(ssID)  // replace the ssID with the Spreadsheet ID
  var sheet = ss.getSheetByName("Form Responses 1");
  
  var formResponses = FormApp.getActiveForm().getResponses();
  var res = formResponses[formResponses.length-1].getItemResponses();
  var amt = res[0].getResponse();
  var title = "Load Schedule 70 data into CALC. >>> Current bid: " + amt + " <<<"
  

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/**
 * Creates a d3 Sparkline
 *
 * @param {str} elem the element's id
 * @param {Object} data {"fips_id":float}
 * @param {Object} dims a dictionary with width, height, and a
 *                 margin dictionary with margin.left, margin.right,
 *                 margin.top, and margin.bottom
 * @param {Object} opts a dictionary with options
 *