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

On 11/27/2016 10:37 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.
> >
> > 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,
My point exactly: pandoc knows that I am converting from markdown format to LO format. It should 
not define new fonts or font sizes for the various parts of the markdown document, only make 
anything tagged Header Level 1 in the markdown document become Header 1 in LO accepting whatever 
font, font size and other style information I have defined in LO. It should not convert Header 
Level 1 in markdown to Times, Arial or any other font at all, this has nothing to do with whether 
LO has compatible fonts or not.

I have never tried to use my markdown editor for defining "rich and complex styles" and I thought I 
had made that clear several times.

I think there are frequent misunderstandings on list why and how some users want to use a markdown 
editor to create document content leaving the formatting to LO, OO or whatever their word processor 
- or slide presentation package - is.

I would like to add that I have pandoc 1.9.4.1 on my computer running CentOS 6.8, apparently pandoc 
1.10 has expanded support for markdown to also include tables and other features.


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