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Comment by thunderbong

2 months ago

I got really excited that I would be able to write in Markdown.

Unfortunately, from the article:

> Markdown import and export features.

Why would you need LibreOffice to write in Markdown? That would be, like, one of the slowest Markdown editors out there.

  • Open .docx file, save as Markdown to nicely preserve things like headings, bold, etc. I moderately frequently have reason to want to go .docx to .md because I have a lot of ediing/rewriting to do and I'd rather work in Emacs than LibreOffice Writer.

  • How about opening Word documents and being able to save them to Markdown in one click? That's super useful to me.

Markdown is a text markup language, of course. The output does not look like the input (unless you want to read raw text Markdown, in which case LibreOffice works fine).

How would that look in a single-pane, edit-in-place, wysiwyg editor? Where would you type the input, and where and when would it show the output?

  • Obsidian does this. It displays the raw Markdown for the line under the cursor, and renders the marked down content everywhere else in the document.

  • These things generally already offer side-by-side page layouts anyway, no?

    Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch from a UI perspective to do something similar with a Markdown preview.

  • Google docs allows using markdown hashtags essentially as shortcuts to switch to title, subtitle, subxntitle