Good open source, non bloated, alternative for word processing (libre office is bloat imo) and then turning text to html code?

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  1. pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    It can easily be converted to HTML (and ODF, DOCX, Latex, RestructuredText, EPUB, ...) with Pandoc.

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  3. github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

    Org-mode -https://orgmode.org/ for the win

  4. marktext

    📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

    For writing use MarkText. It's a single-pane WYSIWYG Markdown editor. You edit directly in the rendered text. You don't have to know Markdown, it's the underlying file format. Think of it as a word processor that uses Markdown under the hood.

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