LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
28 points by freddyb
28 points by freddyb
It seems it's CommonMark: https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/markdown.html?DbPAR=WRITER#:~:text=libreoffice%20implements%20the%20commonmark%20markdown%20specification
Originally came here via https://blog.iwl.me/2026/03/08/libreoffice-markdown/, but it's a bit of an advertisement so I think the original source is better
Thanks for sharing both. I'm always happy to be reminded of new LibreOffice releases.
An interesting idea in that blog post (that I've seen countless times elsewhere): do people honestly believe there's a future where we can still read Markdown files but can't read ODF files? I get that a plaintext format is easier to process, but in what potential future do we still have the ability to open any kind of file and we don't still have code to access the contents of an ODF file?
That silliness aside, I'm all for improving support of popular document formats.