On Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 6:11:59 p.m. UTC+1 Joseph wrote:
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:
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> 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.
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> Joseph Reagle <josep...@reagle.org> writes:
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>> 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?)
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>> I see there's been some discussion on the [CommonMark forum][2], but it doesn't look like you'd find an immediate solution.
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>> Using a filter or hacking something that converts `==foo==` to [foo]{.highlight} that is properly rendered in Word might be options.
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>> [1]: https://www.markdownguide.org/extended-syntax/#highlight
>> [2]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/highlighting-text-with-the-mark-element/840
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>> 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?
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>>> 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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