Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite.

[richh@cupoftea.social]

@opentechfan @libreoffice Yeah, nice. I usually have VSCode open anyway, but if you’re trying to get non/less-technical people to write in .md to run through a SSG, MkDocs, etc, being able to have them do that in a familiar office-type environment is a huge benefit over an IDE or some specialist md editor.

[rickvanrooijen@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice Hurray for Markdown support!

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice Ooh, what are those connectors?

[libreoffice@fosstodon.org]

@Remittancegirl @cstross Thanks so much 😊

[libreoffice@fosstodon.org]

@richlv You can see in the Calc section of the linked-to Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Calc

[diegopds@bolha.us]

@libreoffice 📝 Markdown support 🥰

[thierry_van_kerm@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice I personally moved to SoftMaker's Office Suite. They also have FreeOffice

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice Thanks, skimmed the linked page and didn't figure it out right away :)

[cos@fosstodon.org]

@libreoffice is markdown just import / export or can libreoffice restrict the UI to just markdown supported features?

[kerplunk@mastodon.scot]

@libreoffice

Big new update to #LibreOffice.

Thank you for the info, LO is a great and constantly improving product.

Will update later today.

[rgbes@mastodon.social]

@cos @libreoffice just import/export. A feature request asking for ui support was recently closed as "won't fix" (rightly so, IMO).

[proteus@troet.cafe]

@libreoffice

Cool,
but it's all too big for me.
I'll stick with my version 9.x on my notebook.
That's perfectly adequate for presentations...

[libreoffice@fosstodon.org]

@Proteus We never made a LibreOffice version 9.x, but of course, use what works for you! 😊 Just bear in mind that older versions are unsupported and missing security fixes...

[proteus@troet.cafe]

@libreoffice

That's right, it's even worse than version 9.
It's 7.6. 😂
But I mainly use it offline.

[lahdoja@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice Are you going to add a spellchecker soon? Is there one already?

[libreoffice@fosstodon.org]

@Lahdoja Yes, LibreOffice has had a spellchecker for 15 years 😉

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice

This is thrilling, I am looking forward to seeing what the markdown feature brings

I use markdown everyday from writing to note taking, to minutes - so knowing it will now be readily usable in LibreOffice is big

[ramkay@mastodon.social]

@Proteus @libreoffice wow

[troed@swecyb.com]

@libreoffice Oh that Markdown support needs to be checked out

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@libreoffice

Linux Mint here:

am I better to install the 'system' version, of the 'Flatpack' one?