generates a website from folders with Markdown files using echo, ls, grep, sed (the basic unix toolbox)

simple bit of genius from who other than Paul Irish.

"Ron is a humane text format and toolchain for creating UNIX man pages, and things that appear as man pages from a distance. Use it to build and install standard UNIX roff man pages or to generate nicely formatted HTML manual pages for the web. The Ron file format is based on Markdown. In fact, Ron files are a compatible subset of Markdown syntax but have a more rigid structure and extend Markdown in some ways to provide features commonly found in man pages (e.g., definition lists). The ron(5) manual page defines the format in more detail."

"WMD is a small, simple WYSIWYG-style HTML editor written in JavaScript. Type your text in Markdown, and WMD will convert it to HTML behind the scenes, with optional realtime preview."

Always leery of extending the Markdown syntax...

Enhanced port of the original python script

Markdown ported to Javascript

Lots of Applescript Studio funness - Including a handy Markdown tool.