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exporting MMD documents with footnotes/critic markup

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Adam Rice

Jun 20, 2014 @ 05:31 PM

I would love to be able to write my work documents in MMD, but .doc files are the lingua franca of my industry. So I need to be able to export to that format. And I need to be able to include comments and footnotes.

Currently MultiMarkdown Composer will export footnotes as formatted parts of the main text, rather than footnotes as such, and it doesn't do anything to convert Critic Markup.

I recognize that Critic Markup comments would be a problem, since they are attached to a point in the file, while Word comments are attached to a span of text. I can imagine workarounds for that

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Fletcher on Jun 20, 2014 @ 08:11 PM

   

   Adam,

   Thanks for writing in!

   My sympathies for the need to work in .doc files.

   Your best bet for converting MultiMarkdown to .doc is via the
   OpenDocument format, and using LibreOffice to convert to .doc (or RTF
   for that matter). LibreOffice does a decent job at this -- typically
   much better than Apple's converter in my experience.

   It is possible for someone to write a native MMD->.docx converter. I
   imagine it would be similar to the MMD->.fodt format, except that, to my
   knowledge, there is no single file format for .docx files (just zipped
   folders of a mess of files). I have no need for a MMD->.docx converter,
   and don't anticipate personally writing one. As MMD is open source,
   anyone can contribute should they desire, and I would gladly add support
   for it to Composer as well. Thus far, no one has taken me up on my
   standing offer to help volunteers wanting to write a better RTF
   converter, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

   As for CriticMarkup, I have written a fair amount about this already:

   http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/criticmarkup

   http://support.multimarkdown.com/discussions/conversations/1-technical-limitations-of-criticmarkup-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

   I don't anticipate there being any explicit support for converting CM
   into .doc files in the future.

   Fletcher

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2. 2 Posted by Adam Rice on Jun 23, 2014 @ 04:08 PM

   

   Thanks for the feedback. Clearly there are more ramifications to my idea than I had considered.

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3. Fletcher closed this discussion on Aug 05, 2014 @ 05:06 PM.