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Compose with Markdown in Google Docs
- politelemon 5y agoOP link is for Workspaces. According to this https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036 https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036 I should be able to see it in regular Google Docs, but the option doesn't appear for me.
- delgaudm 5y agoI don't see it Workspaces or in regular Google Docs. I don't see the typical "feature rolling out over the next few weeks" disclaimer, but I wonder if that's it. If it does inter-document linking like obsidian, that would be a real game changer for me.
- antifa 5y agoThe Google Sites product supported markdown, or that mediawiki format, I'm not sure which, it was a long time ago, but one day they all converted to wysiwyg HTML and that pissed me off.
- mderazon 5y agoWould be really nice to have code md syntax in Google docs. The simple formatting is not such a game changer
- jerriep 5y agoIt only seems to convert the markdown syntax to normal Docs formatting. Since Docs does not natively support the concept of a "code block", it would make sense that this is not supported.
- iamevn 5y agoWhen I was at Google, we used an addon to do that. I think it might be this one? Not sure since there was a separate addon repo with internal and specific whitelisted addons. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/code_blocks/100740430168 https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/code_blocks/100... https://github.com/alexwforsythe/code-blocks https://github.com/alexwforsythe/code-blocks
- kappattack 5y agoThis is what I used in college. It works great, but its much slower and more tedious to use compared to markdown code blocks. At one point I switched from using google docs to using the export to pdf feature on a static site generator because I was writing documents with a ton of code blocks and inline code formatting. It saved me a ton of time highlighting code and clicking about in the side panel. I know there are LaTeX addons that let you do things like $$\frac{1}{2}$$ and then render the entire document. Makes me wonder what it would take to do something similar for code.
- slashvar2701 5y agoWhen I need formated code in docs or slides, I use the copy/paste with style capability of browsers. It works from rendered content but also from IDE.
- easrng 5y agoI usually make heading 6 styled as code since you can't add non-heading styles.
- sorokod 5y agoShame, no fenced code blocks.
- chadlavi 5y agoFinally! but why isn't it the complete set? Seems like someone with more vision than "match MSWord's feature set" has been out in charge of google docs.
- taubek 5y agoI have to test this out.