Description: I would like to use Markdown in Writer to format my documents, e.g., if I use back ticks, then it should be formatted as code, or if I start the line with #, it should be an H1 header. If you have used Atlassian Confluence before, that is what I would like to use in Writer. Steps to Reproduce: - Actual Results: - Expected Results: - Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: -
Some potential to implement something similar to the current Normal vs. Web view modes to accommodate direct CommonMark input for parsing by the md4c libs that have already been implemented at 26.2 for import/export as CommonMark compliant markdown. Direct text entry (I guess with autocomletion and syntax checking) on a new Markdown "view" page, but then requiring user change to Normal mode to parse the markup. Otherwise, full parsing of Markdown in normal text entry would be disruptive to existing Autocorrection norms. @Eyal, could you flesh out how direct markdown entry workflows could be approached, either as I see with a new "View" mode, or something more?
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Missing the version info... this topic has been addressed in a GSoC project last year, see https://sergeantcooper.github.io/GSoC-2025-Report/. (In reply to Thomas Zuberbuehler from comment #0) > I would like to use Markdown in Writer to format my documents... This needs specification. We do have a couple of auto-correction methods that apply direct formatting for *,/,~,_ and even "convert" an asterisk or hyphen into an unordered list style. But a text processor should not be mistaken as a markdown editor, IMO. Nevertheless applying H1...3 to #...### fits into the UI concept. And opinions are welcome. -1 from my side.
I am critical of such suggesions, as Heiko pointed out "a text processor should not be mistaken as a markdown editor" and solutions that try to enable both leads to a clash of paradigms and thus a great maintainance burden of somehow combining them. However, I also see that we *could* expand the auto-formatting towards headlines, for example.
I would like to clarify that I'm not looking for a Markdown editor. I would use a text editors to produce Markdown. I'm also not necessary looking for something reversible, i.e., once I used the backsticks for code, ** for bold, or # for headers, the formatting could be fix for the specific text (part) until deleted or changed through the toolbar. I was thinking of this feature as an enhanced autocompletion (similar to how Atlassian Confluence is doing it). Maybe it could be possible to enable and disable the feature, so it doesn't clash with other autocompletions. Basically, the user can choose the mode. Let me give you some background why I'm asking for such a features. I am the sole software developer in the department. The other 50-ish employees require me to use a word processor for documents which reduces my efficiency to write reports, documentation or extending existing documents from others. I would use Quarto or Latex to create my own documents if I could choose... I'm simply hoping to find a good word processor that has some "syntactic sugar" for developers to make the work life less miserable when creating documents.