Re: Write Markdown in Org mode

[leo <orgmode@halloleo.hailmail.net>]

Gi Juan

On 12 Jun 2021, at 22:35, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:

> Hi Leo,
>
> leo writes:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I write a lot of Markdown notes. At the moment I use Melpa’s markdown-mode, but I am considering switching to Org mode.
>>
>> But I’m not sure whether Org mode supports this. In the manual I found an option to *export* to Markdown, but I planning to *write* the notes directly as Markdown.
>>
>> Is this possible with Org mode?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>
> I do not know the characteristics or the contexts of your workflow, but
> seen the case from the outside, from what you comment I would say that
> it would not have a lot of sense for you to write your Org docs in
> Markdown, since Org is also a lightweight markup language, but much more
> powerful than Markdown. Org mode is intended to write in Org syntax.
>
> I started writing my notes in Markdown, and when I migrated to Org, I
> converted all my old Markdown notes to Org via pandoc.
>
> Anyway, inside an Org document you can write Markdown using a source
> block:
>
> #+begin_src markdown
> your text in markdown...
> #+end_src
>
> If you do C-c ' inside the block, you can edit it in another buffer with
> the markdown mode activated[1].
>
> You can also generate a * .md file from that block (see
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html):
>
> #+begin_src markdown :tangle my-file.md
> your text in markdown...
> #+end_src
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel

Good to know. I’m not too keen to learn yet another text markup language, but I might give org mode a try…

Leo