Really interested but not sure to be available.
Any chance that the talk is recorded ?
Have nice day.

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Any chance you can cover how to use pandoc templates? I’m specifically trying to figure out how to set up a bunch of templates for various short story markets so I can just easily export my markdown story into the right format and it’s honestly exhausting.

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Looking forward to this. Where is the stream-link posted?

Is there any chance this could be recorded so we can watch later?

I’d love to join in, but it’s at 4 am in my timezone…

@Laurent @ewestra the talk will definitely be recorded :slightly_smiling_face:

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I haven’t set up the link yet, but I will post it here and on the Discord announcements closer to the time :slightly_smiling_face:

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Which format do you generally have to export to? If it’s a Word docx, then I’ve already got some content on templates for that! :grin: if it’s another format, I’ll have to do some reading, but I can definitely talk about as much as I manage to learn.

(This is because pandoc templates work for most formats except for Word :roll_eyes: so you actually have to use a different method for Word “templates”, but they are still super useful)

Usually Word, yeah. One day I’ll care about epub and pdf but today is not that day.

I have a few (3?) pandoc reference.docx files for formatting docx files if that might be useful for you. More than happy to share.

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Awesome, I’ll definitely have some content on templates for Word :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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It would actually be really helpful to put a few reference docs all in one place… I’m going to make a folder for this talk on the public Community Talks Google Drive folder. Do you mind uploading yours there too? :slightly_smiling_face:

Edit: Using Pandoc to keep your workflow inside Obsidian - Google Drive

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Sure thing. Have uploaded. They are kind of ‘designed’ (one for a journal, another for an edited volume, and another is my standard reference.docx. hope they are useful to people. cheers, Simon

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Where can I find the zoom link?

Hey, where to find the recording?

Do you have any advice for converting epub into markdown? Recently it is an issue for me.
Also I would like to watch it if you share the link

@lmonson @ViaAhmed @Archie the recording has just gone live, you can find it on the community talks YouTube channel :slight_smile:

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Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

I have not used pandoc to go from epub to other formats, so I don’t immediately have any advice

I really must be missing something in this reveal.js workflow. I keep getting resource not found errors for CSS, or else I successfully output to HTML and there are no references to the js or css files. @SkepticMystic Are you storing the full Reveal.js library somewhere in your vault? I’ve even used the --css= to reference a custom stylesheet, but it still errors out and says it’s missing reveal.js/css/reveal.css.

To be fair, I am just working from command line, rather than trying the Snippets/Templater shortcuts you demo’ed in the video. But I don’t see why that would change things, since at the end of the day everything is happening at the Terminal level anyway.

Is there some key setup/config we have to do to get pandoc to convert to reveal.js and include all the proper CSS and JS files?

UPDATE: I managed to get it working, but only after manually updating all the CSS/JS references in the outputted file. Confused about how to get pandoc set up properly so that it just inserts the desired tags automatically, but I’m guessing I just have to figure out how to create a template?

UPDATE #2: Just for anyone else who may run into this rather specific issue, I had two versions of pandoc on my Mac. On the command line, I first checked the version with pandoc --version (it was 2.0 something) and then which pandoc to see where it was installed. Then I ran brew uninstall pandoc since I remembered installing it that way at some point previously. Then I ran which pandoc again, and it turned up another pandoc at another location on my machine. So then I successfully wiped any other versions using the perl script you can find on the MacOS installation instructions here. With a clean slate, I ran brew install pandoc again, and then did a quick pandoc --version and saw that I was now running 2.14 something. That did the trick!

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Hey Frankly, maybe we can figure this out! Will you message me on Discord, it’ll be easier to chat and send screenshots over there :slight_smile: My handle is still @SkepticMystic

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