Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice

I've used quite a few Markdown editors. I know nothing about CentOS, so 
I can't recommend anything for that OS. On Windows, I like WriteMonkey. 
In Linux, the best I've seen is ReText, but last I checked, it's 
developer was no longer supporting an Ubuntu PPA for the program making 
installation less smooth on Ubuntu.

Since Markdown is a pure text file with formatting marks inserted, you 
could easily edit such a file with LO. It sounds like what you're asking 
is a way to convert the Markdown file to a LO format. I'm not sure of a 
direct way of doing that. You might try Pandoc, an online file converter.

My greatest frustration with Markdown, aside from its many different 
flavors, is that there doesn't seem to be a complete Markdown solution 
anywhere. At best, there are add-on tools to some existing products 
(like your Geany), but I've not found anything (at least in the 
free-software realm) that actually includes everything you need.

I've found myself using LaTeX to create HTML files. It's htlatex 
converter does a nice job and creates an easily editable .CSS file. And, 
after nearly 40 years of development, it's really complete.

Virgil


On 11/20/2016 12:15 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 15:55 19/11/2016 -0500, Honly Noname wrote:
> > I am a recent convert to using [M]arkdown for creating draft 
> > documents, outlines etc. [...] Now I would also like to create drafts 
> > of documents and of slide presentations in markdown to later be 
> > transferred to OpenOffice or LibreOffice Writer for finishing the 
> > text documents or OpenOffice or LibreOffice Impress for finishing 
> > slide presentations. [...] I do not seem able to accomplish the 
> > latter ...
>
> I know nothing about Markdown, but simply reading Wikipedia tells me 
> it can be used to produce HTML - indeed, that this is its primary 
> function. HTML can be opened by LibreOffice Writer and you can save as 
> .odt from there.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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