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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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Rendering citations in reading or live preview views #260

Closed majdal closed 6 months ago

majdal commented 6 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I do a lot of academic research and writing, and I heavily rely on this plugin. Many thanks to the authors and maintainers for their work.

The plugin does most of what I’d like to do, but one thing that reduces the legibility of my markdown documents is that citations are not rendered properly, neither in live preview nor in reading mode. This also affects accessibility, since text-to-speech tools are better at handling a rendered citation, and those sound more meaningful than the citation key.

Describe the solution you'd like Ideally, the citations would be rendered the way that pandoc would render them.

Describe alternatives you've considered I could just ignore it, but it still bothers my eyes (and ears!)

The plugin does not support rendering, of course. I couldn’t find a plugin that does the basic rendering. I considered writing my own plugin that uses decorations to do a basic Chicago style rendering, but thought maybe I should consult here first, perhaps that's a feature that would be within the scope of this plugin.

majdal commented 6 months ago

I spoke too soon! I found a plugin that does exactly what I was looking for: https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-pandoc-reference-list