md-to-txt
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Strip Markdown formatting and produce clean plain text via pandoc. Use when the user asks to convert to plain text or export markdown as a .txt file.
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- fabioc-aloha/Alex_ACT_Editionedited, first seen Oct 13, 2026
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Md To Txt
Strip all Markdown formatting and produce clean plain text. Useful for clipboard export, email body fallback, accessibility, and as input to text analysis tools.
Quick Start
node skills/md-to-txt/scripts/md-to-txt.cjs source.md output.txtOptions
| Flag | Default | Effect |
--wrap N | 80 | Line wrap width (0 = no wrap) |
--strip-frontmatter | off | Remove YAML frontmatter |
--strip-mermaid | off | Replace Mermaid blocks with [diagram] |
--strip-images | off | Replace image refs with alt text |
--no-replace-em-dashes | em-dashes ARE replaced for txt | Keep — literal |
--strip-decorative-rules | HRs preserved for txt | Strip decorative --- lines |
Format-Aware Defaults
Plain text gets:
- Em-dash →
,ON. AI-tell em-dashes look bad in monospace fonts. - Decorative HR strip OFF. Pandoc renders
---as visible plain-text dividers, which are usually intentional in txt output.
Override via flags above.
What gets stripped
- Bold, italic, strikethrough markers
- Inline code backticks
- Link URLs (alt text preserved)
- Heading
#markers - Bullet/list markers (indentation preserved)
Related
- Markdown linting — pre-flight the source with the project's linter or the
lint-clean-markdownskill - md-to-word — for formatted output
Would Revise If
Revisit this skill if any of the following fires: pandoc upstream changes plain-text output in a way that breaks the documented "stripped" list; the heuristic for indentation preservation produces wrong output on a real source the user converts; or a heir needs a stripped-but-not-plain output (e.g., RTF, SRT) that this skill doesn't cover: split into a sibling skill instead.
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