Draft demos: Copy As Markdown & Save As Markdown

Bike Outliner
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This would be awesome, and would completely solve the problem for me! Thanks again.

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Sounds good! I realize this is low priority :slight_smile: In any case it sounds like complexpoint is planning to share a script that will solve the problem for my use case (I don’t use KeyboardMaestro, but I do use pandoc). Thanks for the great work you do!

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A first draft of a Pandoc reader for Bike seems to be working, with:

  • Top N levels as headings
  • Specific level(s) → flat Para (rather than indented BulletList)
  • automatic closing-up of empty (unordered list – bullet) lines.

I haven’t yet implemented:

  • Successive completely Code-formatted lines → Pandoc CodeBlock, or
  • Successive (> prefixed ?) lines → Pandoc BlockQuote

Are there any other Bike → Pandoc mappings that might help ?

  • Rows with numeric prefixes → Pandoc OrderedList ?
  • Optional preservation of empty lines, but without bullets ?
  • *** → Pandoc HorizontalRule ?

Anything else ?

25

Wonderful!

I think the main additional mapping that comes up a lot in my use case (lecture notes and handouts for academic lectures/talks) and would be very helpful is

  • Rows with numeric prefixes → Pandoc OrderedList

Quotes would also be fantastic, and using > prefixing makes a lot of sense to me (in part because markdown is so ubiquitous)

Many thanks!

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26

I’ll take a look this weekend.

27

I would love to see this script also handling hyperlinks :pray:

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28

In the meanwhile, if you just want a markdown file which is a simple bulleted outline, but with markdown links, you can install Pandoc, and use a command line like:

pandoc -f html -t commonmark someFile.bike --lua-filter=vanilla.lua > someFile.md

where vanilla.lua (which mainly strips out id annotations, and adjusts the export of highlights and strikethroughs) should be a file containing the following lua script:

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-- Shedding empty lines
function BulletList(x)
    return pandoc.BulletList(
        x.content:filter(
            function(xs) return nil ~= next(xs) end
        )
    )
end

-- Shedding any Div wrappers
function Div(x)
    return x.content
end

-- Optional MD version of Highlight
function Span(x)
    if "mark" == x.classes[1] then
        if FORMAT:match 'docx' then
            x.attributes['custom-style'] = 'MarkYellow'
        elseif FORMAT:match '^.*mark' then
            return {
                pandoc.Str(
                    "==" .. pandoc.utils.stringify(
                        x.content
                    ) .. "=="
                )
            }
        end
    end

    return x
end

-- Optional MD version of Strikeout
function Strikeout(x)
    -- This is just an alternative to flanking MD text
    -- with <s> .. </s> (See, for example iAWriter MD)
    if FORMAT:match '^.*mark' then
        return pandoc.Str(
            "~~" .. pandoc.utils.stringify(
                x.content
            ) .. "~~"
        )
    else
        return x
    end
end
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29

Export the markdown of some selected bike files to a specific location with one click.
Thanks for your code that made my workflow possible.

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tips:
The default location of pandoc filters is under here. creat the file so you can use .lua directly without the path.
/Users/yourname/.local/share/pandoc/filters/vanilla.lua

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