Re: [MMD] odf including a list item with two paragraphs loses indentation in docx

[Fletcher T. Penney]

It's been a long time since I wrote that part of the code, but if I recall there were limitations in the OpenOffice format that prevented list items from containing multiple paragraphs.  It's "faked" by simply indenting the paragraphs.

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Fletcher T. Penney

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On Apr 14, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Barry Weinstein <bwei...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

The following example seems a typical use case so this is probably my misunderstanding.

The simplest of markdown:

*    item one

    continuation
   
*    item two

    continuation

*    item three

    continuation

*    item four

    continuation

processed through mmd2odf yields an fodt file which renders perfectly in LibreOffice. Doing "save as..." to docx produces a document where each continuation paragraph is not indented.

Before I ramble on about my journey trying to circumvent this perhaps someone could point out some user error.

I'm on a Mac having installed with MultiMarkdown-Mac-3.6. I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.2.2.

Regards,

Barry

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[Barry Weinstein]

Thanks Fletcher,

No worries.

It's an unusual state the fodt document is left in. The continuation paragraphs are part of the list since hard returns entered at their ends add to the list. Funny that I'm unable to use the LibreOffice UI to duplicate the formatting produced by mmd2odf. However, using shift returns within a list item produces the desired effect which seems stable when converted to docx.

Is there some way to producing a Word document when there are lists with items having multiple paragraphs?

Regards,

Barry

[Barry Weinstein]

My apologies. It isn't appropriate to consider my follow-on question on this thread. I'll think further on my question and open a new thread if needed.

[Fletcher T. Penney]

No reason to apologize.

RTF might work as an "in-between" format, but it's not very reliable in general.

[Barry Weinstein]

Thanks a bunch.

I tried the advice you gave in the manual for rtf.

mmd -> html -> rtf.

I used Nisus Writer to do the conversion from html to rtf. I think this will be good enough to satisfy the people who need a word document from my work.

I appreciate the help.