Re: Elegant way to export org to Markdown ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Oct 2, 2021, at 14:57, Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-10-02, 14:20 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary 
> <lists@traduction-libre.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to work with SourceHut (sr.ht) and right now they only
>> accept Markdown syntax for their readme/wiki files.
>> 
>> Since I work in Emacs/org-mode to write my documents (and try to stick
>> to that), I'd like to know if there is an elegant way to export org
>> syntax to MarkDown.
>> 
>> I was thinking that the export-dispatch had an option for Plain Text /
>> Markdown, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> Hello Jean-Christophe,
> 
> Have you tried the 'ox-md' which is part of Org?  Like this:
> 
>    (require 'ox-md)
>    (add-to-list 'org-export-backends 'md)
> 
> The export dispatched should then have an "Export to Markdown" option
> bound to 'm'.
> 
> There are more export backends as well.  If you do M-x find-library and
> search for "ox-" you will find more options.
> 
> All the best,
> Protesilaos (or simply "Prot")

Prot, Ihor,

Thank you *very much* for the pointers.

My follow-up question is, most of the ox-stuff seem to be installed by default, 
as far as I can tell. Why is ox-md not ?

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