Instead of writing a converter yourself you could try to use Markdown on your files without modification and see how well it does. The design goal of Markdown is:
Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read,
easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to
structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Instead of writing a converter yourself you could try to use Markdown on your files without modification and see how well it does. The design goal of Markdown is:
There is also AsciiDoc and some others.