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

Interesting but I want to emphasize that this is not a solution for what I seek to accomplish.


On 11/21/2016 9:07 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> You can do much the same with LO itself.
>
> I've always loved the PDF output from LO's PDF converter. For some
> reason I've never been able to figure out, its PDF output seems sharper
> and crisper than the PDF output created by other programs, including
> LaTeX or LyX. It may just be me.
>
> I've also been impressed with LO's HTML output. It has a couple
> different options, either of which which will produce a fairly simple
> HTML file which can easily be edited further with any text editor.
>
> And, where an OpenDocument file is needed, you have it without any need
> for further conversion.
>
> I confess I'm fairly OCD when it comes to my endless search for the
> perfect document creation tool (which of course doesn't exist). In the
> FOSS world, I've tried everything from LO to LaTeX, LyX, Markdown, and
> ReStructuredText, but I almost always come back to LO.
>
> I usually try one of the other alternatives when I need to do something
> LO won't do only to learn later that LO would have done it quite well if
> I had only taken the time to learn it.
>
> Virgil
>
>
> On 11/20/2016 10:41 PM, gordon cooper wrote:
> > To divert a little, but not talking about Markdown.
> >
> > We were looking for a simple way of of producing documents in html,
> > thought we were on the right track until some of the potential users
> > asked for pdf too.  We now use Lyx for the authoring, it produces
> > formatted text, without formatting marks having to be typed in.
> >
> >  From the Lyx master, we output in pdf and html, with DVI and xhtml
> > available as options.  Where Open Document format is needed, the html
> > can be directly pasted in to .odt, but with one failing. A Table of
> > Contents
> > in Lyx loses the page links in the paste function . There is an easy
> > work-around, just create a new ToC in Libre Office - about 4 clicks,
> > and delete the original ToC.
> >
> > Gordon Cooper
> >
> > MX-Linux Documentation Team
> > Tauranga N.Z.


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