LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown

freedomben

This is great news. I've long felt markdown support was a missed opportunity for LibreOffice. There are great options out there, and with AI it's not even terrible to roll-your-own, but I already have LibreOffice anyway and being able to use that instead of reaching for a different tool would be killer. Might be a little while until this makes it into distro packages, but if anyone has tried it I'd love to hear how it compares to the other options.

albert_e

What is a good way to convert MS Office documents to markdown -- until Microsoft adds "Saves As" option to office apps. Anything that can run locally instead of uploading potentially sensitive stuff to random websites. Would be handy on work PCs.

Almondsetat

Does it say how much Markdown is covered? I doubt that it will get the integrated Latex formulas...

abmmgb

What are peoples' favourite md implementations? Curious as there are different varieties and even more varied opinions. I am building a lightweight project folder managing app supporting markdown and I am between Commonmark and GitHub flavoured markdown and want to gather thoughts.

thunderbong

I got really excited that I would be able to write in Markdown. Unfortunately, from the article: > Markdown import and export features.

phartenfeller

Great news. My first thought was that I want to see how this looks. Unfortunately there is not a single screenshot in the announcement. Missed opportunity in my opinion.

kkfx

I keep wondering how much longer they'll cling to these monsters, office suites as a concept. They make no sense since decades, not just for producing TERRIBLE print documents, but also as awful formats for working with text and any data they might contain. I see this latest development as an admission that their time is up, but I don't see that same awareness from the people who actually use the software.

butz

Watch out for RCEs :)

mmarian

Oh, this is actually very helpful for me! I have an AI copilot extension for LibreOffice Writer and I need to export the doc to a text file before sending it to the LLM. The problem is that I lose the semantic formatting (eg heading). Link to the extension for anyone curious: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99471

aussieguy1234

It's markdown import and export. Does not support writing in Markdown.

sourcegrift

I like libreoffice but I can never bring myself to run java and electron apps on my computer.