How do I automatically detect text and format accordingly?

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In Obsidian, you can bold something with four asterisks, italicise with two, use dollar signs for math, and equal signs to highlight.

However, I want Obsidian to detect when I put an ampersand symbol and a character after it, the character denoting the text color. For example:
&1 This text is blue.
&a This text is aqua.
&2 This text is green.
&b This text is lime.
&3 This text is yellow.
&c This text is gold.
&4 This text is orange.
&d This text is brown.
&5 This text is red.
&e This text is purple.

I also want the “formatting codes” to not be visible when colored text is not selected.

I made tooltips that appear on hover, and things like that, but I don’t know where to start when the problem involves automatically detecting text.

If anyone needs more clarity (which you will probably need), feel free to tell me!

2

My guess is that you will need a plugin to do this. A workaround that doesn’t require plugins is to use inline HTML.

<span style="color:red">This is red</span>

Yes, this will make your note messy, but at least it will satisfy the requirement:

I also want the “formatting codes” to not be visible when colored text is not selected.

3

I know how to do this. I have these macros on my Stream Deck:
span style=“color:rgb(195,0,0)”
span style=“color:rgb(0,195,0)”
span style=“color:rgb(255,100,240)”
span style=“color:rgb(54,195,255)”
span style=“color:rgb(55,55,55)”
/span

I just wanted a faster way.

4

You can add rules to the Typing Transformer plugin.