Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
To divert a little, but not talking about Markdown. We were looking for a simple way of of producing documents in html, thought we were on the right track until some of the potential users asked for pdf too. We now use Lyx for the authoring, it produces formatted text, without formatting marks having to be typed in. From the Lyx master, we output in pdf and html, with DVI and xhtml available as options. Where Open Document format is needed, the html can be directly pasted in to .odt, but with one failing. A Table of Contents in Lyx loses the page links in the paste function . There is an easy work-around, just create a new ToC in Libre Office - about 4 clicks, and delete the original ToC. Gordon Cooper MX-Linux Documentation Team Tauranga N.Z. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
H wrote: I should have been clearer. If you read my previous message you will see that I am not looking for what you are describing, rather the ability to read/write document and presentation files in markdown format. This runs into the same problem -- a modern presentation program (such as LibreOffice's) is capable of recording many things in ODF files that can't be converted into markdown. The nature of your problem is that you seek to go from a very capable modern format (such as ODF) to a simple format which, by design, can "only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text" (per https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax). The Multimarkdown editor supposedly can create OO files but since it does not run on my systems I have not been able to give it a try. Going from markdown to ODF should be fine, going the other way is naturally going to be lossy. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
I should have been clearer. If you read my previous message you will see that I am not looking for what you are describing, rather the ability to read/write document and presentation files in markdown format. The Multimarkdown editor supposedly can create OO files but since it does not run on my systems I have not been able to give it a try. On 11/20/2016 8:26 PM, J.B. Nicholson wrote: H wrote: I am looking for seamless interchange between OO/LO and markdown... I don't see how this would be possible. Any modern word processor has features not found in markdown, therefore each of those features would be impossible to seamlessly convert to markdown. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
H wrote: I am looking for seamless interchange between OO/LO and markdown... I don't see how this would be possible. Any modern word processor has features not found in markdown, therefore each of those features would be impossible to seamlessly convert to markdown. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
Yes, that does look quite promising, however, it looks like it is abandonware: open bugs and no updates for quite some time. Also, it talks about presentations, I am not sure if it would work with OO documents. Is anyone using it? I will not have a chance to try it until next week. On 11/20/2016 10:31 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: H wrote on 19-11-16 21:55: 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. You'll be interested in this blog :) https://blog.thebehrens.net/2015/03/13/announcing-odpdown-a-markdown-to-odp-converter/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
I do have Pandoc installed, have not tested it yet, but I would much prefer a seamless way of moving between OO/LO and markdown format. Either the native ability to read/save in markdown format, or a plugin doing the same. On 11/20/2016 9:13 AM, Ricardo wrote: El 2016-11-20 14:45, Virgil Arrington escribió: 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. 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 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
I am looking for seamless interchange between OO/LO and markdown... I understand there is a plugin for Word, Writage, that allows one to convert between the different formats. However, since I do not use Word I am not able to try it. I have not found any such plugin for OO/LO - yet - but that would seem to be the perfect approach. On 11/20/2016 8:45 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: I've used quite a few Markdown editors. I know nothing about CentOS, so I can't recommend anything for that OS. On Windows, I like WriteMonkey. In Linux, the best I've seen is ReText, but last I checked, it's developer was no longer supporting an Ubuntu PPA for the program making installation less smooth on Ubuntu. 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. My greatest frustration with Markdown, aside from its many different flavors, is that there doesn't seem to be a complete Markdown solution anywhere. At best, there are add-on tools to some existing products (like your Geany), but I've not found anything (at least in the free-software realm) that actually includes everything you need. I've found myself using LaTeX to create HTML files. It's htlatex converter does a nice job and creates an easily editable .CSS file. And, after nearly 40 years of development, it's really complete. Virgil On 11/20/2016 12:15 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:55 19/11/2016 -0500, Honly Noname wrote: I am a recent convert to using [M]arkdown for creating draft documents, outlines etc. [...] 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. [...] I do not seem able to accomplish the latter ... I know nothing about Markdown, but simply reading Wikipedia tells me it can be used to produce HTML - indeed, that this is its primary function. HTML can be opened by LibreOffice Writer and you can save as .odt from there. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
Tried it but it does not work very well. I exported one of my markdown documents to HTML from Markdownpad 2 but the export filter inserted lots of extraneous style information that I do not want. I am looking for the minimal information for OO/LO to understand Heading1, lists, tables etc. without adding any extra information. Also, I would expect reverting to markdown format from OO/LO to be quite a mess. On 11/20/2016 12:15 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:55 19/11/2016 -0500, Honly Noname wrote: I am a recent convert to using [M]arkdown for creating draft documents, outlines etc. [...] 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. [...] I do not seem able to accomplish the latter ... I know nothing about Markdown, but simply reading Wikipedia tells me it can be used to produce HTML - indeed, that this is its primary function. HTML can be opened by LibreOffice Writer and you can save as .odt from there. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
H wrote on 19-11-16 21:55: > 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. You'll be interested in this blog :) https://blog.thebehrens.net/2015/03/13/announcing-odpdown-a-markdown-to-odp-converter/ -- Cor Nouws GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 - vrijwilliger http://nl.libreoffice.org - volunteer http://www.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
El 2016-11-20 14:45, Virgil Arrington escribió: 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. 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 -- Il mio blog in italiano: https://ilpinguinoscrittore.wordpress.com/ Mi blog en español: https://elpinguinotolkiano.wordpress.com/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice
I've used quite a few Markdown editors. I know nothing about CentOS, so I can't recommend anything for that OS. On Windows, I like WriteMonkey. In Linux, the best I've seen is ReText, but last I checked, it's developer was no longer supporting an Ubuntu PPA for the program making installation less smooth on Ubuntu. 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. My greatest frustration with Markdown, aside from its many different flavors, is that there doesn't seem to be a complete Markdown solution anywhere. At best, there are add-on tools to some existing products (like your Geany), but I've not found anything (at least in the free-software realm) that actually includes everything you need. I've found myself using LaTeX to create HTML files. It's htlatex converter does a nice job and creates an easily editable .CSS file. And, after nearly 40 years of development, it's really complete. Virgil On 11/20/2016 12:15 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:55 19/11/2016 -0500, Honly Noname wrote: >> I am a recent convert to using [M]arkdown for creating draft >> documents, outlines etc. [...] 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. [...] I do not seem able to accomplish the >> latter ... > > I know nothing about Markdown, but simply reading Wikipedia tells me > it can be used to produce HTML - indeed, that this is its primary > function. HTML can be opened by LibreOffice Writer and you can save as > .odt from there. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Base not starting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dave, > > It appears that Base was not installed as part of the upgrade - > odd! So, my question is what components are needed? They are: * > Java runtime. Should not need as I have the 1.8 JDK, but... So it is installed. You could see this in LO > Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced. > * report-builder Only needed if you wish to create reports. I would install this. > * others? Nothing else but the Base-package. Regards Robert - -- Homepage: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de LibreOffice Community: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/map_3 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJYMWVsAAoJELDKYwaoS9AIukkP/iyZoQLfbbF/aiXpIu35g3zv ReJ/xAQ7UgUHwxtTF87TmgTxQrsxWHThnzCpOUyDH85HR9TAGRZtHGbaaZi2VGqZ HG9QwH2wfoxyh1oN0yyCqMc8j3QY8YcNo2edArs6VlXl9uL8EkSNZr5lI6izrcUH QoOnhwZ+WKAksBmz7GPKJADtYtuQda6FWn8bxgX4e+LMjHFayqPgBeeB0cOe08Lg ans0LeBn1KP7JdnP2xCibyOaffMZfndIRmOLTiHrwD3ADYLv2xE4vJyYK+esZLdQ FkTOA4/Cqm7u8sMj+fN8eS/oBJoXOrv82/hFlscD99i4c3BReIwYMUy9xV2Fozxe ROx3NCKlt/XZ3RF/ufpuDQ8ZIxbKNQgZ5kkjxVoPFpie2pXEBpdQDalwKq0XegNA cvr3uVqI8KwyALRvupcz7E4mzeDFg3kliZLe+qyLVE6Zv1k3aUK3G0wy7aaiJJVQ JwPNpdQfZxSU9Mt6YDtdM1WVenY5Rlw/w+aHC8rzc9w5l3Z7XafNv36pwHs580PB MRT2ndDBBeXjkRQfKTmqZ12amsTiNzpNY5DyofSyKbPImzN987qd2c4voMAPeWzY Jgo/Nd2AJuJld1soGayOOQB+oP1WudUQ7ZotuNReV10ffJxODFcoAIbK8SsoYELk 8Cooy0EKy/+P7+kPLQ1x =3EkU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
