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Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by hu3 »

eskibars wrote: post #14

This would have been very useful at several companies I worked at as a product manager for release blogs. I always start editing in gdocs because it's so much easier to collaborate on than any blog platform, but then you always need to copy/paste the content once final into the blog and nearly every time, it copies some elements of formatting into the rich HTML editor I don't want (fonts, font sizes, etc) while I do…

Indeed, very useful to unite markdown with the omnipresence of gdocs.

One tip for pasting without formating, at least in Windows, is CTRL+SHIFT+V.

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by protortyp »

bomewish wrote: post #5

If 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.

I recently used Typst and their own collab solution for a paper we worked on. While some features are still lacking it was a pretty good experience overall.

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by supriyo-biswas »

tomeraberbach wrote: post #39

Hey folks, I'm the engineer who implemented the new feature. Just clearing up some confusion. A lot of you are noticing the preexisting automatic detection feature from 2022 [1], which I also worked on. That's NOT what this newly announced feature is. The new feature supports full import/export, but it's still rolling out so you're likely not seeing it yet! Hope you like it once it reaches you :) [1] https://workspac…

Is it possible to get this feature in Slides as well?

I often need to prepare technical slides with code in it, and being able to just backtick away into a tag or a 

 block would be a godsend.

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by sheremetyev »

worldmerge wrote: post #27

This 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.

You are not alone :) For Microsoft Word you might find Writage plugin useful (https://www.writage.com) - supports all basic Markdown syntax, tables etc. and recently added support for math formulas.

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by RandomWorker »

tomeraberbach wrote: post #39

Hey folks, I'm the engineer who implemented the new feature. Just clearing up some confusion. A lot of you are noticing the preexisting automatic detection feature from 2022 [1], which I also worked on. That's NOT what this newly announced feature is. The new feature supports full import/export, but it's still rolling out so you're likely not seeing it yet! Hope you like it once it reaches you :) [1] https://workspac…

Thanks for doing this! It’s amazing feature to use docs to compose and paste to my Hugo blog. Very good workflow

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by akersten »

Freak_NL wrote: post #9

No support for code blocks still: ```java String x = "xxx"; ``` No quoting: The docs for `libfloof` state: > The floof is 4 bytes long, at most. And when I type `code` with backticks at the start of a line, the word 'code' is formatted as code as expected, but auto-correct automatically capitalises it to 'Code' — which should never be done with code fragments. So this is basically just headings, italics, bold, and li…

Also when I close a single line code with `, the formatting stays as if I'm writing more code. It should reset to whatever formatting was before the opening `

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by _boffin_ »

tomeraberbach wrote: post #39

Hey folks, I'm the engineer who implemented the new feature. Just clearing up some confusion. A lot of you are noticing the preexisting automatic detection feature from 2022 [1], which I also worked on. That's NOT what this newly announced feature is. The new feature supports full import/export, but it's still rolling out so you're likely not seeing it yet! Hope you like it once it reaches you :) [1] https://workspac…

Question: when coming up with tests (whatever level they might be) before you submit your code, what’s your thought process about what tests to include? What edge cases to handle? What to not test? Is there much disagreement about what to test?

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by scrollaway »

tomeraberbach wrote: post #60
irskep wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it also supported in the Google Drive export API? It's not in the docs yet at least. https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/ref-export-fo...

Yes, it will be supported by this API! I actually wasn't aware of this documentation page. I'll make sure it gets updated. Thanks for flagging

Oh that’s great. Does that mean Google drive will have good markdown previews now?

Re: Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs

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Post by KeplerBoy »

prmoustache wrote: post #38
KeplerBoy wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because not everyone is interested in setting up a Pandoc/Latex toolchain. Overleaf almost solved this problem but they don't support Pandoc as a frontend and want money unless you self-host.

You don't need pandoc and even less a latex(WTF does it have to do with md???) toolchain to work with markdown documents.

Sorry, I was talking about scientific writing, where you have to be able to produce PDF artefacts.

Writing in markdown and converting to .tex is actually a quite popular way of doing that these days.

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