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Google Apps Script Markdown tools

This addon provides two operations:

1. Format Selected Markdown: select some markdown in a google doc, and it will convert it to proper google docs formatting to the best of its abilities
2. Markdownify Formatted Selection: select some formatted text, and the tool will do a best effort replacement with equivalent markdown

Supports vanilla markdown, including:

• normal paragraphs, with inline bold, italic, monospaced, links
• code fences
• un/ordered lists, nested
• tables

The one obvious missing feature would be image blocks. Those get left alone.

Selection is a funny term. It doesn't exactly snap to the precise character the cursor is at, rather, it uses it as guidance as to which paragraphs/objects to transform into blocks of markdown. I.e. it snaps to the extents of a paragraph, or of a table, or of a list, you cannot "format from markdown" a single instance of **bolded text**, it has to be a whole block.

Installation

VBA macros style:

1. Click Extensions -> Apps Script
2. Copy the code from Code.gs and paste it in the Apps Script editor for Code.gs
3. Hit save / CTRL+S
4. Reload the Doc
5. There is now a "Markdown Tools" menu.

At some point there will be a scareware screen about allowing "Unknown project" access to your Google Drive. The Unknown project is the thing you pasted, that is the project.

Alternatively, you can save this into a Google Apps Script on your drive and create a Test deployment targeting a google doc.