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I want to embed Google docs - and possibly Google sheets - in a GitLab markdown file. GitLab's markdown guide lists the following steps to do this. Contactcall of duty 1.1. Open your Google document; click File- Publish to the web; choose Embed; click on Publish and copy the; go to your markdown file and wrap the iframe into a tag with the responsive videocontainer class like in this example. Login to Google Docs and choose a document. Click the Add-ons menu and select Get add-ons. Search for “Export as Markdown” on the available search box and hit enter. Click the FREE button to install it on your Google Docs.
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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?
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.
Google Docs Markdown Templates
What works?
- horizontal lines
- links that are .com
- bulleted lists
Nothing else. Juve stabia 1920 kitsempty spaces the blog.
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+zto 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+zfixes it
Save as .txt.
- Paste the contents of
.txtinto Dillinger.io. - Open the
.txtfile into Dillinger.io. - Open the
.txtfile in Marp
Since I’m collaborating on a set of slides. Opening in Marp is my preferred option since I can see the actual slides generated.
It is possible to use Google Docs as a markdown editor, just remember to use ctrl+z a lot.
I’m collaborating with someone who does not really know Markdown. So at the start of our shared Google Doc I have a comment which has these instructions in it.
You just have to take a little care. And since you get to edit as you share. That’s a price that seems fair.
Google Docs Markdown Download
- Related:
Google Docs Markdown Form
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