LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Markdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.

In a world of ever-increasing software complexity, Markdown is a welcome change. It's dead simple and it can't do very much – but that's its virtue. Markdown is a document markup format you can just read (please, try to contain your excitement). It has two key advantages. One is that it's so simple that you can write in any old plain text editor. The second is that it's designed to be readable and make sense to humans as well as computers, even if they don't know they're reading Markdown.

It's the default format of several distraction-free writing tools such as I Write Like – the authors of which seem very pleased that LibreOffice 26.2 can natively import and export ...