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

On 11/27/2016 04:37 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> H. @ 2016-11-27 19:00 GMT:
>
> > On 11/20/2016 03:13 PM, Ricardo wrote:
> > > El 2016-11-20 14:45, Virgil Arrington escribió:
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > Pandoc can be installed on any system, but only recent versions support ODT, so you need to look 
> > > with version if offered by CentOS
> > >
> > > http://pandoc.org/
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ricardo
> > I have installed pandoc and tried to converted two markdown documents to ODT opening them in 
> > LibreOffice  4.3.7 under CentOS 6.8.
> >
> > It seems Pandoc modifies the LO styles, setting fonts to Arial, Times Roman etc. which are not 
> > available in LO. Pandoc also did not assign the default list style to lists, nor did it handle 
> > tables at all. Although tables are not part of the core markdown they are part of a common 
> > extension.
Does CentOS 6.8 have access to the "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" package?

This package includes Arial and Times New Roman and many of the core 
fonts you get with a Windows install.  I use the DEB package, but 
hopefully there is a RPM package as well.

On my main laptop, I have Arial in "normal" style, monospaced, 
condensed, narrow, and rounded font sets.

Actually, I have over 180 fonts in my ".font"folder, and have over 14GB 
of font files on my "file server".

> > I would have preferred pandoc to use whatever the style settings are in LO,
> > not trying to change anything.
> Actually it does not work that way; pandoc cannot guess what styles are used
> by LibreOffice. If you have written your two documents using markdown they
> simply cannot use LibreOffice styles "in advance". I think that what's really
> going on with Pandoc is that it has default settings for each type of export
> filters. Arial and Times Roman are fairly common fonts and by default
> LibreOffice can use them with no problem.
>
> On the other hand, using Markdown in my experience does not really make me
> expect to have nicely laid out documents (like with LibreOffice or LATEX for
> instance). Markdown is fundamentally a web and transitional format, made to
> process text on websites or online documentation. If you are looking for rich
> and complex styles I suggest to stick to LibreOffice or other kinds of tools
> such as LATEX.
>
> Best,


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