when did google become sooo sloooow implementing trivial features, and then not even shipping a complete set of markdown?!
Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
We just have to iterate in the "markdown support feedback/help" pulldown I guess. because without ```code``` it's not useful. Looking at you HN... (ok at least we have 2 indents codeblock)
What would ``` add that you can't already do with two indents? Beyond that, I think support for ```sh type highlighting would be awful, one of the best things about HN is how clean it is, I'd hate to see syntax highlighting or pictures or whatever when scrolling.
> What would ``` add that you can't already do with two indents?
It would let me add those fences before and after the code I’m pasting instead of having to go and add spaces in front of every pasted line. On mobile adding the spaces after pasting is a bit fiddly. Then again, maybe it is a feature because it discourages pasting too many lines of code in many cases.
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#23i hope they'll eventually support Mermaid (https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid) for creating diagrams directly within documents. i've been using it a lot for my markdown files and it works amazingly well with LLMs (e.g. asking LLM to generate the diagram representation of something using Mermaidjs)
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#24when did google become sooo sloooow implementing trivial features, and then not even shipping a complete set of markdown?!
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#25Interesting announcement. Feels like some of it is just copy-pasted from a PRD. Not necessarily a bad thing (it's clearer than press release style), just the first time I've noticed it in a "bigtech" announcement.
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#26when did google become sooo sloooow implementing trivial features, and then not even shipping a complete set of markdown?!
> trivial features
Four features were announced:
1. Convert Markdown to Docs content on paste
2. Copy Docs content as Markdown
3. Export a Doc as Markdown (from File > Download)
4. Import Markdown as a Doc (from File > Open or "Open with Google Docs" from Drive)
Which of these do you see as trivial? These all seem quite complex to me with many edge cases , incompatibilities and ambiguities, especially if there's an expectation that you can round trip losslessly.
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#27This is really useful! Hope they continue to add features. I don’t like directly writing markdown and would rather use a text editor like Docs or Word.
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#28For Google Docs like real time collab on native markdown, I like and use daily: * https://hackmd.io and * https://stash.new
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#29I guess most users of Google Docs have no use for this, especially the download as markdown. I wonder why they decided to add this feature for the tech crowd so late in the lifecycle of the product, feels almost like an Summer '24 intern project?
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#30If this is implemented properly it’ll be a game changer for collaboration on papers. Means one can write a paper with colleagues in markdown and then easily knit with pandoc/quarto. Cheaper than overleaf etc.
You can already get most of the way there, as Pandoc supports reading the ODT or DOCX export from Google Docs reasonably well.
I have this in my shell history:
pandoc --from=docx --to=asciidoc --wrap=none --atx-headers --extract-media=img doc.docx > doc.adoc