Re: Way to have markdown ==highlighting== show up as highlighting in .docx or .odt files?

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Good question! Thanks for reminding me of this. But exporting to PDF in 
Obsidian with highlights should work automatically, no?

On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 3:21:03 p.m. UTC+2 Emiliano wrote:

> Any news about this feature for Pandoc? I use a lot the highlight syntax 
> ('== ==') in Obsidian and it would be great if I could render my 
> highlighted text in PDF (also in DOCX and ODT).
>
> Il giorno domenica 2 gennaio 2022 alle 17:52:44 UTC+1 Alx Nbl ha scritto:
>
>> My use case is different from paulschi, in my case i am trying to 
>> convert docx into markdown and generating '== ==' syntax when there is 
>> higlighted text in the docx file.
>>
>> On Sunday, January 2, 2022 at 3:09:42 PM UTC+1 Alx Nbl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all. The '== ==' syntax is also used by Joplin app. I would also be 
>>> very interested by such a feature.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 6:29:51 PM UTC+1 John MacFarlane wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On CriticMarkup, see 
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2873 
>>>> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5430 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Joseph Reagle <josep...-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> writes: 
>>>>
>>>> > BTW: If CommonMark or pandoc were to support highlight, I would then 
>>>> wonder why not support all of CriticMarkup, which supports highlight as 
>>>> `{== ==}` or `{>> <<}`. (It's a shame that we have two different syntaxes 
>>>> emerging for highlight.) 
>>>> > 
>>>> > On 21-12-09 11:10, John MacFarlane wrote: 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> If this is a syntax that is becoming common, we could consider 
>>>> >> adding a markdown extension for it. You could open an issue on 
>>>> >> our issue tracker. 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >> Joseph Reagle <josep...-T1oY19WcHSwdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> writes: 
>>>> >> 
>>>> >>> This is the first time I've encountered [this syntax][1] and it is 
>>>> not natively supported by pandoc. Or am I wrong and you are saying pandoc 
>>>> handles it when using the latex/PDF writer? (Or, are you saying Obsidian 
>>>> can export to PDF, but not Word?) 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> I see there's been some discussion on the [CommonMark forum][2], 
>>>> but it doesn't look like you'd find an immediate solution. 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> Using a filter or hacking something that converts `==foo==` to 
>>>> [foo]{.highlight} that is properly rendered in Word might be options. 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> [1]: https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/#highlight 
>>>> >>> [2]: 
>>>> https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-text-with-the-mark-element/840 
>>>> >>> 
>>>> >>> On 21-12-09 08:29, Paul wrote: 
>>>> >>>> I use a lot of highlighting in my markdown editor Obsidian, but I 
>>>> was wondering if there's a way to have that highlighting show up in the 
>>>> Word or Libreoffice Writer files? 
>>>> >>>> 
>>>> >>>> Bold and italics work fine, as far as I can tell, and when 
>>>> converting to a pdf the highlighting transfers great. I gather, however, 
>>>> that the ==highlighting== is not standard in all markdown so is that the 
>>>> issue? 
>>>> >>> 
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