Google Docs To Markdown

One suggestion: use Pandoc to convert Markdown to docx, then import to Google Docs using the Google Drive API. You can also accomplish this using the Google Drive web interface: Convert markdown to ODT (or some other intermediate) using pandoc: pandoc MyFile.md -f markdown -t odt -s -o MyFile.odt; Move the ODT file into your Google Drive folder. From idea to code in seconds, build and learn alongside the most creative coders on the Web.

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Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling all forms of writing on the GitHub platform.

What you will learn:

How the Markdown format makes styled collaborative editing easy
How Markdown differs from traditional formatting approaches
How to use Markdown to format text
How to leverage GitHub’s automatic Markdown rendering
How to apply GitHub’s unique Markdown extensions

What is Markdown?

Markdown is a way to style text on the web. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters thrown in, like # or *.

You can use Markdown most places around GitHub:

Comments in Issues and Pull Requests
Files with the .md or .markdown extension

For more information, see “Writing on GitHub” in the GitHub Help.

Examples

It's very easy to make some words bold and other words italic with Markdown. You can even link to Google!

Syntax guide

Here’s an overview of Markdown syntax that you can use anywhere on GitHub.com or in your own text files.

Headers

Emphasis

Lists

Unordered

Ordered

Images

Blockquotes

Inline code

GitHub Flavored Markdown

GitHub.com uses its own version of the Markdown syntax that provides an additional set of useful features, many of which make it easier to work with content on GitHub.com.

Note that some features of GitHub Flavored Markdown are only available in the descriptions and comments of Issues and Pull Requests. These include @mentions as well as references to SHA-1 hashes, Issues, and Pull Requests. Task Lists are also available in Gist comments and in Gist Markdown files.

Syntax highlighting

Here’s an example of how you can use syntax highlighting with GitHub Flavored Markdown:

You can also simply indent your code by four spaces:

Here’s an example of Python code without syntax highlighting:

Task Lists

If you include a task list in the first comment of an Issue, you will get a handy progress indicator in your issue list. It also works in Pull Requests!

Tables

You can create tables by assembling a list of words and dividing them with hyphens - (for the first row), and then separating each column with a pipe |:

Would become:

First Header	Second Header
Content from cell 1	Content from cell 2
Content in the first column	Content in the second column

SHA references

Any reference to a commit’s SHA-1 hash will be automatically converted into a link to that commit on GitHub.

Issue references within a repository

Any number that refers to an Issue or Pull Request will be automatically converted into a link.

Username @mentions

Typing an @ symbol, followed by a username, will notify that person to come and view the comment. This is called an “@mention”, because you’re mentioning the individual. You can also @mention teams within an organization.

Automatic linking for URLs

Any URL (like http://www.github.com/) will be automatically converted into a clickable link.

Strikethrough

Any word wrapped with two tildes (like ~~this~~) will appear crossed out.

Emoji

GitHub supports emoji!

To see a list of every image we support, check out the Emoji Cheat Sheet.

Last updated Jan 15, 2014

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Author: Alan Richardson

I want to collaborate with people on Markdown based writing. Google Docs is a great collaborative writing environment. But it keeps adding formatting when I don’t want it to, so how can I use it to edit markdown. In this post I will tell you how to do that.

Cutting to the chase: type in your markdown and press ctrl+z everytime Google Doc adds formatting, save as .txt

Markdown is a text based writing markup language, which you feed into other programs to convert to pdf, html, slides, etc.

I use it all the time. Running the Markdown through Marp to create slides, Dillinger.io for adhoc documents, and Pandoc for more formal documents.

I mainly use a subset of markdown.

When I am creating slides I only really use the following constructs

If Google docs can allow me to create the above then I would be fine.

There are Chrome plugins that claim to help with this. But I really want a no-addon approach.

What are the Google Docs Output options?

Google Docs Convert To Html

The following options look most promising.

Web Page (.html, zipped)
Plain text (.txt)

What happens if I create a doc and export as html?

I created a Google Doc - formatted as though it was the Markdown rendering.

I exported the .html as a zip from Google Docs.

I tried to use online services to convert HTML to Markdown.

It didn’t completely work.

Dillinger.io
- links are Googlised
- bold and italics are missing
- no image marker

Bonus: I learned that a horizontal line is also *** and not just ---

What happens if I create a doc and export as text?

Using the same Google Doc, I tried to export as text.

What works?

horizontal lines
links that are .com
bulleted lists

Nothing else.

But that defeats the point

The biggest pain of using Google Docs as a Markdown editor is the continual reformatting of what you type into formatted text. But if you get used to typing ctrl+z every time this happens then you will be fine. I experience a similar problem when I type Markdown directly into Evernote, although it doesn’t reformat the text quite as much.

bullets auto convert into bullets
- this exports OK
- or ctrl+z to remove formatting
images you will have to export as html
- save as zipped html and find the images
- publish as html and save the images
bold works fine
underscore works fine
end comments converts into a unicode graphic - cntrl+z fixes it

Save as .txt.

Paste the contents of .txt into Dillinger.io.
Open the .txt file into Dillinger.io.
Open the .txt file in Marp