Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice

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#21

I know that but the point is that pandoc seems to have defined certain fonts for the various elements in a markdown document which it should not. It is irrelevant whether LO has substitutable fonts or not.

#22

There is a utility called MultiMarkdown that will write flat ODF files
readable by LO.

#23

MultiMarkdown has been suggested by its author Fletcher Penney and it does sound interesting. Unfortunately I could not get it to work on the only Windows system I have - running Vista - and I am not sure I could compile it for CentOS. Fletcher has not responded to the first issue.

Please do not send replies to me personally, this is a mailing-list discussion and I am - obviously - a member of the mailing list and the discussion is for the benefit of those members who have an interest in markdown and LO. Private replies are a waste of bandwidth and as welcome as spam.

#24

​I've started writing a markdown conversion tool for another purpose, but
it would be relatively trivial for me to output fodt; do you have a
reference to the markdown you use? As I understand it, there are a lot of
variation of it.

(sorry if it was said before in the thread, but it's been a lenghty one).

#25

That would certainly be terrific! My understanding is also that markdown was invented by Gruber and that there are multiple extensions. I would propose Fletcher Penney's syntax summary for MultiMarkdown, see https://rawgit.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html.

Let me restate that when converting to LO/OO format, the converter should not impose /any/ style information whatsoever, not use a particular font, a particular style etc. If I - in LO - have defined the font cvayfgappt23mpat at 12.74 points to be the font for Headings Level 2 that should be used and if I have font y0gagöaqgfy 37.902 points for body text that should be used, no assumptions about fonts, languages etc. My understanding is that a LO document always has certain styles defined, including Header 1, Header 2, Text Body, Table Header etc. and whatever I have defined those as in LO would be used by LO.

#26

As I understand it, H wants to convert markdown to odf AND BACK to markdown. Most of the messages in this thread are ignoring that last step.

#27

While it would be very nice to be able to revert to markdown, that may not be very workable...

#28

Yes, I know that.

The question seemed to state that they wanted/needed Arial and Times New Roman specifically. So I made my comment about how to get it.

I do use a lot of "compatible" or "similar" fonts so I get what I want/need without paying for the "name brand" font's price. For Liberation, I have the Mono, Serif, Sans Serif, and Sans Serif Narrow, versions installed. Sometimes I have both Narrow and Condensed versions of fonts, when they seems to be different. Liberation only has Narrow, but Arial seems to have both.

My only trouble for font selection is when I am dealing with a Windows user that uses Word, not LO, who need the document[s] to have fonts specific to their Windows system. That was one reason I installed the MS Core Fonts package.

#29

Just did it... :wink: