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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/7416
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Over on another site we're [talking about](http://meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/q/1501/472) taking some of our content (on a particular theme) and re-packaging it as a printable PDF. (The primary use case is paper.) This wouldn't be a straight dump of the original posts; sometimes you want to edit some for a different audience, links don't work, and so on. We're currently [thinking about](http://meta.judaism.stackexchange.com/a/1508/472) using meta posts to facilitate this editing (so we can crowd-source that part of the work).

My question is: what's the best way to get from those posts to the final product, preserving as much formatting as possible so we don't have to re-do it? One could work with the Markdown (are there translators for that to other formats?), or with the generated HTML (the actual web page). Or one could cut/paste into one's favorite document-creation tool, which sounds like an unfortunate choice because it's labor-intensive _and_ the formatting wouldn't follow. An additional consideration is that some of our content is in Hebrew (so non-ASCII).

I realize that I'm treading dangerously close to "too localized", but it seems like the same techniques that are used for wikis and blogs might apply here too.

Original score: 4