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freedomben
This is great news. I've long felt markdown support was a missed opportunity for LibreOffice. There are great options out there, and with AI it's not even terrible to roll-your-own, but I already have LibreOffice anyway and being able to use that instead of reaching for a different tool would be killer. Might be a little while until this makes it into distro packages, but if anyone has tried it I'd love to hear how it compares to the other options.
albert_e
What is a good way to convert MS Office documents to markdown -- until Microsoft adds "Saves As" option to office apps.

Anything that can run locally instead of uploading potentially sensitive stuff to random websites. Would be handy on work PCs.

jdboyd
I don't know about converting PowerPoint and Excel to Markdown, but for Word, I'd say open the file in LibreOffice Writer 26.2, and save as Markdown.

Alternatively, use pandoc, and save the command in a .sh or .ps1 to remember.

Almondsetat
Does it say how much Markdown is covered? I doubt that it will get the integrated Latex formulas...
abmmgb
What are peoples' favourite md implementations? Curious as there are different varieties and even more varied opinions. I am building a lightweight project folder managing app supporting markdown and I am between Commonmark and GitHub flavoured markdown and want to gather thoughts.
contravariant
At this point pandoc, that way I can at least be sure I can translate it to whatever format I need.
black_knight
I love Pandoc’s markdown. Wrote my PhD thesis in it, and most of my subsequent articles.
thunderbong
I got really excited that I would be able to write in Markdown.

Unfortunately, from the article:

> Markdown import and export features.

phartenfeller
Great news. My first thought was that I want to see how this looks. Unfortunately there is not a single screenshot in the announcement. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
timbit42
What's to screenshot? It only imports and exports Markdown.
kkfx
I keep wondering how much longer they'll cling to these monsters, office suites as a concept. They make no sense since decades, not just for producing TERRIBLE print documents, but also as awful formats for working with text and any data they might contain.

I see this latest development as an admission that their time is up, but I don't see that same awareness from the people who actually use the software.

grosswait
So if the people making the software don’t see their time is up and the people using the software don’t see their time is up, who decides their time is up?
mmarian
Oh, this is actually very helpful for me! I have an AI copilot extension for LibreOffice Writer and I need to export the doc to a text file before sending it to the LLM. The problem is that I lose the semantic formatting (eg heading).

Link to the extension for anyone curious: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99471

alansaber
I know nothing about libre but in MS Word there's the office api you can use to send MD to an API, there's nothing similar? It's great to be able to read/write directly in MD.
aussieguy1234
It's markdown import and export. Does not support writing in Markdown.
sourcegrift
I like libreoffice but I can never bring myself to run java and electron apps on my computer.
amai
Which Markdown dialect does it support?