Increase the possibilities of compiling documents

[bepolymathe]

Hi,

I don’t really have the skills to develop a plugin but I’ll leave this idea there if someone likes it.

It seems to me that Obsidian’s editing capacity would be greatly increased if we had the possibility :

1. edit .rmd files (Rmarkdown)
2. that we had the possibility to launch a compilation allowing us to generate PDF, word, html, etc. as desired.

Are there any projects in this area?
Currently, I think that we should be able to tinker with a script that sends a compilation command to bash via the “Templater” plugin (for example) .

R -e " rmarkdown::render('test.rmd', 'word_document')

But having a plugin that allows you to select the output format and options would be so friendly to users…

[ryanjamurphy]

See:

Handle (edit) other plain text file formats ( rmarkdown, tex, txt, code, etc )

What: I’d like Obsidian to be able to read and save files as .txt as well as .md, with the same file contents. Why: Interoperability that would blow my mind! I’ve been using Dokuwiki for years for one of the same reasons that I’m excited about Obsidian: it runs on a directory of simple text files. This makes it trivial to keep and sync a local copy of the pages, refactor things wildly, and pull text out to other systems. I have a plugin running on Dokuwiki that lets it read Markdown, so the …

Note that a recent release introduced a preference for handling non-markdown file formats. They are not rendered but instead launch in the default application.

[bepolymathe]

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I had seen this discussion. Precisely, it seems to me that the day when we will be able to edit text non-md files (txt, rmd, etc) we will be very happy to have a compilation tool accessible from obsidian

[Binary_Dissonance]

This is something I would like to see, specifically to .docx format. Currently, I do my work in Obsidian and then I use Zettlr to do the exporting to Word. It works well but that is the only reason I keep Zettlr installed.

[ryanjamurphy]

Ah, in that case, pandoc integrations are probably what you want:

Run the preview through pandoc and give users the ability to control options?

I was comparing Obsidian markdown versus Pandoc markdown and come up with list of Pandoc extension. List is probably not complete one, and likely it’s easier to use gfm (GitHub-Flavored Markdown) as a format. Still posting it here just in case, as it helped me understand features and possible deviations with other editors. space_in_atx_header backtick_code_blocks task_lists pipe_tables intraword_underscores strikeout tex_math_dollars raw_html (but without markdown inside) shortcut_reference_li…

Pandoc plugin

A pandoc plugin would allow us to convert our text files into pretty much whatever we want, which would allow Obsidian to be the starting point for most any text file. I was just thinking about this today when someone requested a word document and all I wanted to do was write it in Obsidian.