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From Markdown to .odt and vice-versa

29 May 2016

I wanto to convert complex documents for Markdown so they can be used here to write this blog. There are lots of ways, but i choose the following one.

We need to have LibreOffice, pandoc, and a text editor.

The process is this.

  1. Create a .odt file in LibreOffice, using the following. The first three items in the list must be applied using styles, i.e. from “Styles and Formatting” > “Paragraph Styles”:

    • Headings—not Titles,
    • Preformatted Text (only works for block elements),
    • Quotations,
    • ordered and unordered lists,
    • hyperlinks,
    • italics and bold,
    • footnotes.
  2. Run pandoc -s file.odt -t markdown -o file.md
  3. Edit the markdown file.md and correct every thing that seems wrong!!! There is some markdown editors, i like to use MarkdownPad2.

Test:

Here is a heading

Here is some text. Here is some italics. Here is some bold. Here is a link4. Here is a footnote.1

Here is some text. Here is some italics. Here is some bold. Here is a link4. Here is a footnote.2

Here is some text. Here is some italics. Here is some bold. Here is a link4. Here is a footnote.3

Here is a subheading

Here is a subsubheading

Here is a subsubsubheading

  • Here is an unordered list.
  • Here is an unordered list.
  • Here is an unordered list.

Here is some text. Here is some italics. Here is some bold. Here is a link4. Here is a footnote.4

  1. Here is an ordered list.
  2. Here is an ordered list.
  3. Here is an ordered list.

Here is some monospace text.

Here is a blockquote. Here is a blockquote.

Pandoc

Pandoc is a general markup converter that can convert from one markup format to another. It can read Markdown, CommonMark, PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub-Flavored Markdown, and (subsets of) Textile, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX),MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org mode, DocBook, txt2tags), EPUB, ODT and Word docx;

and it can write plain text, Markdown, CommonMark, PHP Markdown Extra, GitHub-Flavored Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML5, LaTeX (including beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, RTF, OPML, DocBook, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, DokuWiki markup), Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 or v3), FictionBook2, Textile, groff man pages, Emacs Org mode, AsciiDoc, InDesign ICML, TEI Simple, and Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js or S5 HTML slide shows. It can also produce PDF output on systems where LaTeX, ConTeXt, or wkhtmltopdf is installed.

http://pandoc.org/README.html

Using Pandoc

By default, pandoc produces a document fragment, not a standalone document with a proper header and footer. To produce a standalone document, use the -s or –standalone flag:

To convert from markdown to Word docx:

pandoc -s -S input.md -o output.docx

To convert from Word docx to markdown:

pandoc -f docx -t markdown foo.docx -o foo.markdown

To convert markdown to PDF:

pandoc input.md -o output.pdf

To convert from .odt to markdown:

pandoc -s file.odt -t markdown -o file.md

To convert from markdown to .ODT (OpenDocument Text):

pandoc input.md -o output.odt

See: *http://pandoc.org/demos.html

References

  1. Here is a footnote. ↩

  2. Here is a footnote. ↩

  3. Here is a footnote. ↩

  4. Here is a footnote. ↩

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