There is no cmdlet to process about help topics in the Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS

[peetrike]

Summary of the new feature / enhancement

The old module (PlatyPS) was able to process about help topics from markdown to .help.txt files. The new modules seems to not have that ability.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

No response

[sdwheeler]

The only support the old platyPS module had for about_* topics was to create an empty template. There are no plans to add this to the new version.

[peetrike]

platyPS v0.14.2 is able to convert existing about_.md files to about_.help.txt files. The conversion is not the best, but it exists. Specifically, New-ExternalHelp (https://github.com/PowerShell/platyPS/blob/master/src/platyPS/platyPS.psm1#L921-L933) does that.

[sdwheeler]

Reopen for further investigation. This feature doesn't work with the way we format about_.md files for our publishing system. We use Pandoc to convert the about_.md files in our build system.