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LibreOffice is Finally Working on a Long-Requested Feature and I am Happy (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's Happening: Work is underway to add native Markdown import support to LibreOffice Writer. This development, led in collaboration with a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developer, aims to enable opening and editing of Markdown files (.md) using the MD4C Markdown parser.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Documentation in a repository.

ODT and DOCX are binary and can't be versioned and compared like a plain text format can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Thanks, for your explanation!

Now that you mention it I saw these .MD files several times on Github etc.