Re: Bug in hyperlinks in narrative reports
Posted: 13 Apr 2023 01:33
I agree that Markdown is underutilised. I've worked in a couple of different editors, Obsidian predominantly, but the main reason I like .md is that it is independent of software (although, as with the discussion above, DOCX is basically ubiquitous at this point!).
When I want to produce output from Markdown files, I use Pandoc (a command line tool) to convert them to PDF, sometimes even via LaTeX so that I can apply a nice template. That's probably beyond the scope of this topic (and definitely the FHUG board), but it would be amazing if CP implemented a Markdown export format.
As a workaround in the interim, exporting my notes to .txt and making the necessary tweaks is not so bad. I'm sure it's possible to write a macro or similar to quickly format the files to confirm to .md standards as well (especially in terms of citations).
When I want to produce output from Markdown files, I use Pandoc (a command line tool) to convert them to PDF, sometimes even via LaTeX so that I can apply a nice template. That's probably beyond the scope of this topic (and definitely the FHUG board), but it would be amazing if CP implemented a Markdown export format.
As a workaround in the interim, exporting my notes to .txt and making the necessary tweaks is not so bad. I'm sure it's possible to write a macro or similar to quickly format the files to confirm to .md standards as well (especially in terms of citations).