This is promising and I would love to try MultiMarkdown. I went to your site
and downloaded from github but the latest version is sadly not compatible with
Windows Vista I have on my netbook. Is there a 32-bit version that I can try?
Also, I see there is a Mac-version but I also need to run it on CentOS (Red
Hat).
The above are showstoppers of course but does MultiMarkdown support "folding",
i.e. hiding sections like in a DOS outliner?
On 11/12/2016 12:49 PM, Fletcher T. Penney wrote:
MultiMarkdown has supported the Flat OpenDocument format for many years. It
currently supports it for Writer documents, but there is no reason the same
approach couldn't be used to create Impress presentations. Technically, one
could also create spreadsheet files as well, but not sure that's a good idea.
In fact, using the existing beamer format output and the ODF format
conversions, it should be relatively easy to create a converter for
presentations.
https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-5
http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/
Fletcher
On 11/12/16 12:24 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
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Subject: Markdown documents to OO/LO Writer and Impress
I am a recent convert to using markdown for creating draft documents,
outlines etc. My primary OS is CentOS where I use geany with a plugin
although I believe gedit also allows for creating/editing markdown
documents(?) On windows I have both geany, markdown pad íí, and notepad
ii.
I do use tables a lot and since I like to use markdown for outlines of
complex documents I would like to see easy folding of sections, similar
to what you could do with the old DOS outliners. Alas, combining those
two requirements in a modern editor seems impossible...
Now I would also like to create drafts of documents and of slide
presentations in markdown to later be transferred to OpenOffice or
LibreOffice Writer for finishing the text documents or OpenOffice or
LibreOffice Impress for finishing slide presentations. Ideally allowing
me to go both ways for the final version.
I do not seem able to accomplish the latter and have not found the ideal
markdown editor yet - suggestions welcome!
[orcmid]
There is a single-file XML format for ODF documents that would work for
conversion from markdown and import to one of LibreOffice Writer or LibreOffice
Impress. This works so long as (1) you have no images or other external
imports and (2) you can come up with a converter. Since conversions to HTML
are commonplace, it might be possible to craft a converter that makes ODF
single-file XML instead. But someone needs to hack on the respective code.
Fortunately, the ODF Table format matches the row-major order that is used in
the Markdown and in HTML tables. Styling is different, but a converter would
do some sort of fixed stylings (and font settings) that could be changed in the
desktop software. You would also be editing pagination, headers/footers, etc.,
in the target software anyhow. There might be a way to set up templates for
some of this and merge those in, but I don't know enough about that to be
entirely confident about it.
Apache OpenOffice does not consume the single-file XML format, so there is a
bit more work to provide a conversion in that case. Namely, AOO and
LibreOffice both accept the Zip-package format of ODF documents and those can
be produced with a bit more effort - the contents of the Zip is a set of XML
files plus a manifest. The single-file format is convertible to the
Zip-package format in a straightforward manner, so it would be a good step-up
from a single-file producer. The greatest advantage is the fact that there is
compression and now a way to package images and other artifacts within the
multi-file contents of the ODF package.
Adding either of these conversions as input filters to either OpenOffice.org descendant
is probably beyond the call of duty. It would be easier to have a converter essentially
"pipe" its output into one of them, which is practical.
Also, Microsoft office will consume the ODF package formats for Text (Writer)
and Presentation (Impress) formats, and anything originated in MarkDown should
import just fine.
Finally, if you can find a Markdown to RTF or any of the classic or OOXML
Microsoft Office formats, that should produce something simple enough that you
can import into one of LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice with decent fidelity as
well.
These are all interesting challenge projects for document-processing tools.
Whether there are enough piece parts out there to simply create a workflow
through them is more desirable and others here might have solutions.
Thanks for your interesting question.
- Dennis
Thank you.
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