Export text from Obsidian as rich text?

[abusch]

Hi,

I use the Obsidian editor to write assessments for my students. I do so using Markdown, i.e. including italics and bold text.

How can I get this out of Obsidian? I have tried rendering the text and copying and pasting it, but that apparently removes all rich text additions; so all I get (when pasting it into a Pages document) is plain text.

Any ideas? I could not find anything here in the forum or elsewhere, but would be most grateful for any suggestions or practices for getting rich text out of Obsidian!

[atiz]

If you don’t want to mess with Pandoc (which I tend to use, but my documents may more complicated), you can export to pdf (clicking on the “More options” on top) and then copy-paste from there. It preserves basic formatting.

If you do use Pandoc, it can convert from markdown to docx.

[Dor]

@abusch

copying and pasting it, but that apparently removes all rich text additions

Doesn’t copy&paste from the preview preserve the rich text for you?

[abusch]

Many thanks for the statement that I should expect preservation of rich text - made me think that it might have something to do with the theme I use (Shimmering Focus). With that, no preservation - however, when using the Minimal theme, rich text was indeed preserved! So, for the time being, a simple switch of the theme solves my problem. Will contact the developer of Shimmering Focus to inquire whether this could be added to this theme!