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

I am looking for seamless interchange between OO/LO and markdown... I understand there is a plugin 
for Word, Writage, that allows one to convert between the different formats. However, since I do 
not use Word I am not able to try it. I have not found any such plugin for OO/LO - yet - but that 
would seem to be the perfect approach.


On 11/20/2016 8:45 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> 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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