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

Again, this is not what I am trying to do and of course I am aware that any OO/LO document has lots 
of formatting and options that markdown lacks that would be lost going from OO/LO, that's the 
reason for using markdown.

My focus - which the other users understood - is to focus on the content of the document, using 
OO/LO later to polish the presentation of the content.

Although I did not mention it, there are also several markdown editors running on Android phones 
and tablets allowing me to work on document content on the go.


On 11/20/2016 9:13 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> H wrote:
> > I should have been clearer. If you read my previous message you will see
> > that I am not looking for what you are describing, rather the ability to
> > read/write document and presentation files in markdown format.
>
> This runs into the same problem -- a modern presentation program (such as LibreOffice's) is capable 
> of recording many things in ODF files that can't be converted into markdown.
>
> The nature of your problem is that you seek to go from a very capable modern format (such as ODF) to a simple 
> format which, by design, can "only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text" (per 
> https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax).
>
> > The Multimarkdown editor supposedly can create OO files but since it does
> > not run on my systems I have not been able to give it a try.
>
> Going from markdown to ODF should be fine, going the other way is naturally going to be lossy.


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