I use the Citations plugin to manage citations.
Within Obsidian, I really would prefer to have links to the literature note rather than citations:
(1) [[@darwin-1856-origin]]
But, of course, for Pandoc to render this citation properly this should be:
(2) [@darwin-1856-origin]
Pandoc recognizes the second as a citation, but wraps the finalrendering with the extra brackets .
The following filters the token stream to strip the extra brackets from the citation.
#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pandocfilters import toJSONFilter, Str, Plain
import sys
import re
def replace_citation_links_with_citation(key, value, format, meta):
# sys.stderr.write(f"=== {key} ===>\n")
# sys.stderr.write(f"{value}\n\n")
elements = []
if key == "Plain" or key == "Para":
for item_idx, item in enumerate(value):
if item["t"] == "Str" and item["c"] == "[":
if item_idx < len(value) - 1:
if value[item_idx + 1]["t"] == "Cite":
continue
elif item["t"] == "Str" and item["c"] == "]":
if item_idx > 0:
if value[item_idx - 1]["t"] == "Cite":
continue
elements.append(item)
if key == "Plain":
return Plain(elements)
elif key == "Para":
return Para(elements)
if __name__ == "__main__":
toJSONFilter(replace_citation_links_with_citation)
If saved to a file, e.g. ~/.local/share/pandoc-filters/obisidian-citation-links.py, and invoked when running pandoc by --filter ~/.local/share/pandoc-filters/obisidian-citation-links.py, then something like this:
The best cookies in the world have cardamom in them [[@darwin-1856-origin]] .
will look like the following to Pandoc.
The best cookies in the world have cardamom in them [@darwin-1856-origin] .
So you can now have your citations and link them too.