Settings
Google Drive is our Cloud Storage provider and collaboration space. Some settings need to be set by each user to have uniformity and ensure consistency throughout workflows crossing multiple platforms and involving multiple contributors.
Markdown formatting settings
Markdown is a plain text way to format text. It uses symbols such as # , * and - to designate various formatting rules.
Google Docs supports markdown, but to maintain interoperability. we don’t actually want to convert this markdown into Google’s formatted text. To make sure this is disabled:
- open a blank document in google docs
- go to tools → preferences
- un check automatic list formatting and markdown support
- click on substitutions
- uncheck the substitutions for three dashes
---and two dashes-- - click save
You should now be ready to input plain markdown into Google Docs.