Support for Google Docs flavor of markdown

[dpasirst]

Now that Google Docs is starting to support markdown. Has there been any thought on adding support for the Google Docs flavor of markdown?

Of course, it's brand new and perhaps not everybody even has it enabled yet...

I'm attaching a file with an example (Google Docs File -> Download -> Markdown (.md)) and a screenshot with how it looks in Google Docs. The table of contents was generated in docs via Insert -> Table of Contents. Unfortunately, it uses a format like ## Chapter 1 {#chapter-1} which goes completely sideways with an ugly error in my setup using next.js with remark-gfm.

With the table, my setup does not honor cells with multi-line content as exported either. Assuming that is because it is not part of remark-gfm. I did not expect the "blue" to be honored and as expected the markdown does not contain anything in it. I'm sure there is a lot more to experiment with...

example.md

[remcohaszing]

I recall having seen at least a very similar community plugin, as in, one that handles syntax like ## Chapter 1 {#chapter-1} for adding custom IDs to headings. I don’t recall what it’s called, but you can try to find it.

The way newlines in table columns are handled is interesting. Perhaps we could add a rehype plugin that replaces � with <br>.

[dpasirst]

btw: Before posting this, I searched community plugins for something that had support for markdown containing ## Chapter {#chapter}, but I was unsuccessful.

I'm not sure yet what else is unique to Google Docs new native download as markdown feature, perhaps footnotes - but the first one (the {#chapter}) was a show-stopping error 😞 for me and the second one resulted in some disappointing-looking output.

I did some other quick tests:

• footnotes: uses the same format that Github uses e.g. to a note[^1] and then at the bottom is [^1]: Some footnote
• emoji - was exported as the character itself (not the text :emoji: shorthand).
• horizontal line: uses Github like syntax of ---