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Obsidian Enhancing Export Plugin

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This is an enhancing export plugin base on Pandoc for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md/). It's allow you to export to formats like Markdown,Markdown (Hugo),HTML,docx,Latex etc.

Where Markdown,Markdown (Hugo),HTML will export and its media resource together.

Note： Markdown,Markdown (Hugo),HTML are tested in Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as I used it for myself, others are not tested well.

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Screen shot

• Export view，click on Export to... on file menu.

  

• Setting view

  

Installation

1. First install the latest pandoc (3.1.9+), and then add pandoc path to environment variable PATH or set absolute path of pandoc in the plugin setting view.

   See more details in https://pandoc.org/installing.html。

2. Search obsidian-enhancing-export in the community plugins of obsidian, and install it.

Customize export commands

You can customize your export command by yourself, click add in the plugin setting view and then choose template custom to add new custom configuration.

Variables

You can use ${variables} in custom export command, their values are:

Key	Value
${outputPath}	Output file path after export. For example， if your export to location /User/aaa/Documents/test.pdf, then ${outputDir} will be replace that path.
${outputDir}	Output directory of saved exported file，It will be /User/aaa/Documents in above case.
${outputFileName}	File name (without extension) of the saved exported file. It will be test in above case.
${outputFileFullName}	File name (with extension) of the saved exported file. It will be test.pdf in above case.
${currentPath}	Path of currently edited file. For example, if your are editing /User/aaa/Documents/readme.md, the the value will be /User/aaa/Documents/readme.md.
${currentDir}	Current directory of currently edited file, It will be/User/aaa/Documents in above case.
${currentFileName}	Filename without extension of currently edited file, It will be readme in above case.
${currentFileFullName}	Filename with extension of currently edited file. It will be readme.md in above case.
${vaultDir}	The obsidian current vaultDir.
${attachmentFolderPath}	The attachmentFolderPath of Obsidian.
Others variables	You can use keyword: value in YAML Front Matter, then use ${metadata.keyword}

Related resources

• Tutorial: Obsidian Tutorial for Academic Writing - tutorial on how to setup this plugin and use it for academic writing (export to .docx, .pdf, .tex, .bib)
• A collection of lua filters for pandoc: https://github.com/pandoc-ext - Filters and other goodies to get the most out of pandoc, the universal document converter.
• Math latex editor: https://math.yish.org/

Finally

• Welcome to provide more command templates to here.
• Feel free to file an issue for any questions.