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[FR] Pandoc Compatible Syntax (fenced-divs)

Open Servinjesus1 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Multicolumn Markdown is available in Pandoc via a columns filter. While this isn't native pandoc, the filter seems prolific and compatible enough to be considered part of the pandoc ecosystem, and the default go-to for pandoc multicolumns. It follows the fenced_div syntax of native Pandoc, which makes sense as the multi-column environment is a type of div.

I would love to see this plugin adopt this syntax so that my markdown documents are compatible with pandoc. Right now, the syntax available is extensive, which I appreciate for mitigating any sense of vendor lock-in, however I'm not sure if any of the existing syntaxes derive from any multi-platform tools or existing Markdown standards. A pandoc-compatible syntax would let Obsidian (and its markdown syntax) remain interoperable with other formats via pandoc.

Servinjesus1 avatar Apr 24 '23 22:04 Servinjesus1

Yes, i actually considered this syntax when i originally built this plugin, however since i do not do the markdown processing myself and instead pull it from the obsidian API, there's no way to give it different tokens to look for (like the ::: token) theoretically it can be done, but without support for live preview though so i might add that as a feature in the future

tnichols217 avatar Apr 24 '23 23:04 tnichols217