Obsidian plugin API does not support rendering of embeds?

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I created a custom solution for rendering embeds in Obsidian-rendered markdown. Here’s the source code in my repeat plugin: obsidian-repeat-plugin/markdown.ts at ad2097cde7c337a2ee04b48083cd12e0d680b5a2 · prncc/obsidian-repeat-plugin · GitHub

The basic idea is to first render with MarkdownPreviewView.renderMarkdown and then fix broken embeds (with direct DOM manipulations) using a sequence of cases like:

 const embedType = determineEmbedType(node);
    if (embedType === EmbedType.Image) {
      const img = createEl('img');
      img.src = getMediaUri(
        vault,
        node.getAttribute('src') as string,
        sourcePath);
      node.empty();
      node.appendChild(img);
    }

The tricky part is figuring out the URLs.

At this time, I only embed PDFs on desktops because it looks like mobile Obsidian uses native-systems to embed PDFs and it wasn’t worth the time investment to support a feature I don’t use that much. Also, I don’t recursively render notes embedded in the embedded note, although it wouldn’t be to complicated to do so.