https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170290
--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1) > @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? I'm flattered by your request :-) I can think of several modes in which Markdown might be used: Mode 1: As Thomas suggested, we would add autocorrect capabilities to cover all Markdown constructs (including the ones with start and end markers, which might be challenging). Maybe create a section in the long list of autocorrect options for Markdown syntax, and offer a single group toggle for all markdown correction features. Note we may have conflcits between some Markdown and non-Markdown autocorrect rules (in which case the UI behavior for them should be mutually exclusive, either by pre-disabling a contradicting rule or toggling a rule off if you toggle its contradictor on). Mode 2: A command for interpreting the content of a selection as Markdown. This makes the operation more "global" and less "local" like an autocorrection. It remains to define what happens with existing formatting (named style / DF) when Markdown-induced formatting is applied, i.e. do you skip non-default-formatted content? Override? Combine? Resolving bug 128553 might be relevant here. Note that this is _not_ the functionality we have in the GSoc project, as the content is not plain text. Mode 3: A special text box, or text-box-like widget, for the user to enter unformatted Markdown only, which is then rendered, planted at the cursor position in the document and forgotten about. The entry box could be in a modal or non-modal dialog, or even "in the document" in the sense of its entered plain text baseline continuing the text already typed, and with the box not being movable elsewhere and maybe not even rectangular. Mode 4: A "markdown source" view for a document, which tries to "un-apply" Markdown to what's already formatted (and perhaps even remember earlier pastes and keyboard actions to maintain such a source). In that view it is more appealing/straightforward to add Markdown-syntax stuff. Mode 5: A "markdown rendering output" view for a document, which is about the opposite of Mode (4.); here, we assume the formatted document text itself contains some Markdown syntax, and try to format it as in mode (2.). (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > Missing the version info... this topic has been addressed in a GSoC project > last year, see https://sergeantcooper.github.io/GSoC-2025-Report/. That was an import filter + clipboard paste support, IIANM. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
