mdformat-obsidian

An mdformat plugin for Obsidian Flavored Markdown. This plugin directly supports Callouts and defers the rest of the formatting to additional plugins installed automatically.

[!NOTE] The format for GitHub Alerts differs slightly from Obsidian, so they are not fully compatible. Obsidian supports folding, custom titles, and is case insensitive. To improve interoperability, this package makes the stylistic choice of capitalizing the text within [!...].

mdformat Usage

Add this package wherever you use mdformat and the plugin will be auto-recognized. No additional configuration necessary. See additional information on mdformat plugins here

Pre-Commit

repos:
  - repo: https://github.com/executablebooks/mdformat
    rev: 0.7.16
    hooks:
      - id: mdformat
        additional_dependencies:
          - mdformat-obsidian

pipx

pipx install mdformat
pipx inject mdformat mdformat-obsidian

HTML Rendering

To generate HTML output, obsidian_plugin can be imported from mdit_plugins. For more guidance on MarkdownIt, see the docs: https://markdown-it-py.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#the-parser

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt

from mdformat_obsidian.mdit_plugins import obsidian_plugin

md = MarkdownIt()
md.use(obsidian_plugin)

text = "> [!tip] Callouts can have custom titles\n> Like this one."
md.render(text)
# <blockquote>

# </blockquote>

[!WARNING] This package does not properly handle replacing the blockquote outer div with a div for accessibility. This should be possible with markdown-it, but I haven't yet found a way.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md