dendron-pandoc

Dendron is a markdown based note taking tool, and Pandoc is a document conversion tool. However, they don't always play nice together. I wanted to be able to compile my Dendron vault into nice PDFs using pandoc, which is why this exists.

Features:

• Pandoc filters for making Dendron links work properly
• a script for adding bibliography information (or other data) to all markdown files in a vault
• also, you should use pandoc-mermaid-filter

dendron-links-filters

Dendron links look like [[link.to.a.file]], which does not work by default with Pandoc. Pandoc filters are provided to convert the links.

Files:

• dendron_links_md.py: parses the links into the Pandoc AST.
• dendron_links_pdf.py: parses the links, but will additionally link to pdfs files of the same name instead of raw markdown files.
• _dendron_link_tools.py provides the utilities for working with the Pandoc AST.

Requirements

• pandocfilters (a python package)
• Pandoc itself

Usage:

To convert a markdown file to a .tex file with working links to the original markdown:

pandoc my.dendron.file.md -o my.dendron.file.tex --filter dendron_links_md.py

Or, if you intent to compile every file into a pdf:

pandoc my.dendron.file.md -o my.dendron.file.tex --filter dendron_links_pdf.py

If you intent to compile many files, you may create a defaults.yaml file with the following:

filters:
- dendron_links_pdf.py

and invoke it with

pandoc my.dendron.file.md -o my.dendron.file.tex --defaults defaults.yaml

more information about pandoc filters: https://pandoc.org/filters.html

frontmatter

To be able to cite things from a bibtex file in your notes, you need to set the bibliography in the frontmatter. update_frontmatter.py sets the same bibliography in the frontmatter in all files in a directory.

Usage:

First, in update_frontmatter.py set MY_REFS equal to a list of paths (absolute, or relative to the markdown file itself, not the python script).

Then, run the script, pointing it to your Dendron vault

python update_frontmatter.py vault

(note: there may be some weirdness for joining paths)

designed to work with the vscode extension PandocCiter

mermaid

mermaid is a tool for making charts and diagrams that is used in Dendron. Thankfully, there already exists a filter for making this work with Pandoc: pandoc-mermaid-filter

planned features:

• somehow getting citations to look nice in the Dendron preview
• resolving LaTeX macros into raw LaTeX for the Dendron preview