Google Docs workflow via pandoc?

Google Docs workflow via pandoc?

[Benjamin Slade]

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I was curious if anyone has come up with a workflow for working with Google 
Docs in another editor (say, Emacs).  I played around a bit with: with 
google-cl one can get or edit Google Docs documents in various formats, 
docx, odt, rtf, html, txt.  Txt format would obviously be easiest, but it 
strips out all formatting from the original document (and so is 
destructive).  The markup of Google Docs' rtf and html formats are really 
unreadable, so unfortunately one can't work with them directly in Emacs in 
any reasonable way.  I was wondering if anyone had developed a workflow for 
downloading Google Docs docs in some format, converting them via pandoc to 
some text-editor-manageable format, and then reconvert them back to the 
original format.  And, if so, how well this works.  

The reason I'm curious about this is that Google Docs is very convenient 
for collaboration, especially with people of varying levels of technical 
expertise, but it would be great if I wasn't stuck working in a 
word-processor.

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Re: Google Docs workflow via pandoc?

[mb21]

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I've used https://stackedit.io and liked it a lot. To enable collaboration: 
in the left sidebar: "Google Drive" -> "Export" -> "Options..." -> tick 
"Create a real time collaborative document". Then in Google Drive, invite 
your collaborators.

On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 4:47:45 AM UTC+1, Benjamin Slade wrote:
>
> I was curious if anyone has come up with a workflow for working with 
> Google Docs in another editor (say, Emacs).  I played around a bit with: 
> with google-cl one can get or edit Google Docs documents in various 
> formats, docx, odt, rtf, html, txt.  Txt format would obviously be easiest, 
> but it strips out all formatting from the original document (and so is 
> destructive).  The markup of Google Docs' rtf and html formats are really 
> unreadable, so unfortunately one can't work with them directly in Emacs in 
> any reasonable way.  I was wondering if anyone had developed a workflow for 
> downloading Google Docs docs in some format, converting them via pandoc to 
> some text-editor-manageable format, and then reconvert them back to the 
> original format.  And, if so, how well this works.  
>
> The reason I'm curious about this is that Google Docs is very convenient 
> for collaboration, especially with people of varying levels of technical 
> expertise, but it would be great if I wasn't stuck working in a 
> word-processor.
>

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