/obsidian-text-format

Format seleted text in Obsdidian.md

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Text Format

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Sometimes I encounter some issues like

  1. I copy some text from pdf or some other source, but the copied content is out of format. For example, there are more than one space between words or one paragraph brokes into several lines.
  2. I want to lowercase the letters when they are all uppercase, etc.

Therefore, I wrote this plugin to format selected text lowercase/uppercase/capitalize/titlecase or remove redundant spaces/newline characters, and other features listed below.

Install this plugin right now: obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-text-format

Features

Press cmd/ctrl+P to enter the command. 👇

Or you can consider to bind custom hotkeys to those commands.

Basic

Command Description
Lowercase selected text Lowercase all letters in selection
Uppercase selected text Uppercase all letters in selection
Capitalize all words in selected text Capitalize all words in selection
Capitalize only first word of sentence in selected text Capitalize only first word of sentence(s) in selection
Title case selected text Capitalize words but leave certain words in lower case in selection (Note: not support Cyrillic strings for now) (#1)

List

Command Description
Format bullet list Change • into bullet list, i.e. - ; split every bullet point into single line; and remove blank lines.
Format ordered list Change *)(star could be any letter) into ordered list (e.g. 1. , 2. ); split every ordered point into single line; and remove blank lines. (#4)
Convert table to bullet list The first volume is 1st list, other volumes are sub-list
Convert table to bullet list with header Sub-list begins with ${header}:

Links

Command Description
Remove WikiLinks format in selection Convert [[WikiLinks]] to WikiLinks (#28)
Remove URL links format in selection Convert [Google](www.google.com) to Google
Convert URL links to WikiLinks in selection Convert [Google](www.google.com) to [[Google]]

PDF copy / OCR

Command Description
Remove redundant spaces in selection Ensure only one space between words
Remove blank line(s) replace \n\n with \n
Merge broken paragraph(s) in selection Change selected lines into single-line, except lines are separated by blank line(s). At the same time, blank lines will be merged into one blank line(optional, default enable), and redundant spaces will be removed(optional, default enable).
Remove hyphens Remove hyphens (like when pasting text from pdf) #15
Split line(s) by blanks Replace with \n for OCR use case.
Convert to Chinese character (,;:!?) For OCR use case.
Replace ligature Replace ligature to Non-ligature (#24)

Others

Command Description
Custom Wrapper Add any arbitrary wrapping element in Setting. (Benature/obsidian-underline#5) See below for more examples ⬇️
Decode URL Decode URL for better reading and shorter url.
Convert single letter into math mode e.g. convert P into $P$ (latex), apply for all single letter except a.
Convert Mathpix array to markdown table Convert latex array generated by Mathpix to markdown table format
Zotero note format and paste See below ⬇️
Add extra double spaces per paragraph for whole file Add double spaces at the end of every paragraph (#8)

Wrapper

e.g.

  • Underline: prefix=<u>, suffix=</u>, then selected text will turn into <u>text</u>
  • Font color: #30

Zotero format

The format template can refer to https://www.zotero.org/support/note_templates

  • default
    • zotero: <p>{{highlight quotes='true'}} {{citation}} {{comment}}</p>
    • plugin config: “(?<text>.*)” \((?<item>.*?)\) \(\[pdf\]\((?<pdf_url>.*?)\)\)
    • result: {text} [🔖]({pdf_url})

Some Example

  • lowercase 
    - Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ hello, i am using obsidian.
  • uppercase 
    - Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ HELLO, I AM USING OBSIDIAN.
  • capitalize word 
    - Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I Am Using Obsidian.
  • capitalize sentence 
    - hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I am using Obsidian.
  ^
  • title case 
    - Obsidian is a good app.
+ Obsidian Is a Good App.
              ^
  • redundant spaces 
    - There  are so   many redundant      blanks
+ There are so many redundant blanks
  • merge broken paragraph 
    - This paragraph is broken 
- into several lines. I want 
- those lines merged!
- 
- And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between 
- two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into 
- one paragraph!

+ This paragraph is broken into several lines. I want those lines merged!
+
+ And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into one paragraph!
  • bullet list 
    - • first, blahblah • second, blahblah • third, blahblah

+ - first, blahblah 
+ - second, blahblah 
+ - third, blahblah
  • ordered list 
    - a) first, blahblah b) second, blahblah c) third, blahblah
- i) first, blahblah ii) second, blahblah iii) third, blahblah

+ 1. first, blahblah 
+ 2. second, blahblah 
+ 3. third, blahblah

demo