markdown from word docx (not) using pandoc

word tables to markdown using pandoc

# I tried markdown addin by Britva from https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200002866, but it doesn't do tables
# By default pandoc renders tables using pandoc markdown conventions, which breaks up cell content on multiple lines (breaking in the middle of a hyperlink, rendering invalid markdown)

pandoc -s foo.docx -t markdown -o foo.md

# Seems there is a number of table plugins that enable you to finetune the behaviour

pandoc -s foo.docx -t markdown-simple_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables -o foo.md

# In many scenario's (seems related to the column width being more then a treshold) this approach breaks and pandoc 
# falls back to render a html table, instead of markdown

# This  behaviour can be skipped by setting a long column width + wrop=none, but it gives unexpected artifacts

pandoc -s foo.docx -t markdown-simple_tables-multiline_tables-grid_tables --wrap=none --column=999 -o foo.md

# So probably better to use gfm (github flavoured markdown)? Same problems as above...

pandoc -s foo.docx -t gfm -o foo.md

# Giving up on using pandoc for now. Moving to https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown based on Ruby and libreoffice