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So, for any of my fellow Cohosters, you probably have an archive (or in my case, a git repo...) of Cohost posts that you want to re-upload here, in which case, those posts are probably in markdown format.

I've learned through trial-and-error that there's two ways to deal with this:

1) For the more tech-savvy, use a command-line tool like pandoc. This is how I re-uploaded my stories on Dreamwidth.

Using pandoc to turn Markdown into HTML that you can just copy-and-paste into DW is pretty simple:

pandoc Skykomish_Never_sleeps.md -o Skykomish_Never_sleeps.html

2) As this docs page states, you can place a !markdown directive a the beginning of the entry, and then proceed to just write markdown.

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