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hans / obsidian-citation-plugin

Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.
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Literature note title template can't handle colons. #156

Closed Zigurat9 closed 2 years ago

Zigurat9 commented 2 years ago

Desired title: The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature x What I get from Wish: The Field of Cultural Production_ Essays on Art and Literature

I am not a developer myself. I did see someone already digging into this issue but only within {{title}} when creating note template. Some pointed to specific workarounds but none seem to be casual-user friendly at this point. The {{title}} issue can be solved with quotes ("{{title}}") but the literature note title template doesn't really comply with this workaround.

tefkah commented 2 years ago

This is because Obsidian itself does not allow you to use colons in the title of notes. When you e.g. use it in the frontmatter, it works fine:

---
title: {{title}}
---

If you use The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature there it should just work, it only fails when in the actual title of the file.

My guess is that this is because they (Obsidian/author of this plugin) want to maintain compatibility with Windows, where filenames with colons are not allowed.

hans commented 2 years ago

This is correct, characters disallowed by filesystems are not allowed for use in note titles.

@Zigurat9 if you are not satisfied with the current solution (replacing disallowed characters with _) please suggest what you'd like to see instead. Thanks!

HotLoverGirl69 commented 1 year ago

@Zigurat9 if you are not satisfied with the current solution (replacing disallowed characters with _) please suggest what you'd like to see instead. Thanks!

I would prefer to replace them by an empty string i.e. foo: bar should become foo bar