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I'm using Aaron Swartz's HTML2Text.py script to turn HTML into Markdown on my web app. However, it doesn't support footnotes (the <sup> tag is being removed). I want to make it functional with support for footnotes but I can't figure out what to do.

I tried this code, but it doesn't seem to work (I added self.sup = 0 at the start of the script):

 if tag == "sup":
        if start:
            self.p(); self.o('[^] ', 0, 1); self.start = 1
            self.sup += 1
        else:
            self.sup -= 1
            self.p()

and also just:

if tag == "sup":
    self.sup()

The issue is that the <sup> tags are being removed entirely, <li> tags lose their id and <a> tags lose their rel so I get non working links.

Can anyone help me add support for the <sup> tag and footnotes in this script?

The script is available here (It's too long to post here). I'm using Python 2.7.9.

Thanks :)

UPDATE: with this code:

        if tag == "sup" and start:
        if has_key(attrs, 'id'):
            id = attrs.get('id', '').replace("fnref:", "")
            self.o("[^" + escape_md(id) + "]")

It renders the <sup> but it doesn't include the <a> inside or connects it to the <li> at the bottom with the actual footnote.

Readerbility
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  • Did you try anything yet or are you asking for anyone to code for you? ;-) – dhh Jun 26 '15 at 08:18
  • @ddh I have tried adding `if tag == "sup": self.sup = 0` or `if tag == "sup": if start: self.p(); self.o('[^] ', 0, 1); self.start = 1 self.sup += 1 else: self.sup -= 1 self.p()` and other statements involving `if tag == "sup"` but I can't manage to succeed so I'm looking for help finding what to use. I'll add those to the question. Sorry for not knowing, new here :) – Readerbility Jun 26 '15 at 08:36
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    @dhh I edited the question now with a more detailed information of what I need and what I tried, also look at my other comment, I accidently misspelled your name (sorry!) so you didn't see it. – Readerbility Jun 26 '15 at 09:00

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