Add font choice to Format dropdown menu

Use case or problem

Hi, how difficult would it be to modify the right-click menu’s ‘Format’ dropdown menu, to include any font of my choice, that’s on my system?
I’d like to be able to highlight any block of text and specify the font to display it in.
For now, I don’t feel there’s a simple enough way to do this at all, and I’m not sure why.

Proposed solution

IDK how this would be solved, as I’m not yet knowledgeable enough about the inner workings or established user traditions.

Current workaround (optional)

I don’t have a current workaround; I’m still scratching around for an easy way to do this.

Related feature requests (optional)

Obsidian is based on writing and supporting markdown documents which don’t allow inline font choices by default.

https://github.github.com/gfm/#what-is-markdown-

 

You should use Google Docs, MS Word etc for inserting inline fonts. Obsidian doesn’t offer this. You can use community plugins to get custom inline formatting like different colors. Using these plugin will make your notes non portable (you cannot necessarily use your notes across different markdown editors).

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Thanks, that gives me some boundaries to consider.

Great. I forgot to mention that there is also OpenDocument format that is similar to docx in Word but the idea is that OpenDocument works between different editors similar to markdown.

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Yes, fond of ODF for its open licence nature, glad about that.