Working around Pandoc limitations with SC

[seatrout]

There is a pandoc plugin which works pretty well, but I write with only one carriage return (line feed) to separate paragraphs and Word only recognises two consecutive ones as a paragraph break, which means the output using the plugin is horribly smooshed together.

So I wrote this.

#Requires -Version 7.0
param ($MarkdownFile =$($env:userprofile+\Vaults\Floradora\Drafts\2 - the cottage.md'))
$PandocTemplate=$env:userprofile+'\Pandoc_exports\custom-reference.docx'
$tempfile = (Split-Path -Path $MarkdownFile -Parent) + "\temp_for_MSWord.md"
if (Test-Path $tempfile) {
Remove-Item $tempfile
}
$singlespace=(get-content $MarkdownFile -Raw) # -Raw switch to get at the line endings.
# now strip the YAML, if there is any. There is meant to be a pandoc switch for this. It doesn't work. 
# $Fakepython is an array; the last parameter corresponds to Python maxsplit.
if ($singlespace -match "---") {
    $fakepython=$singlespace -split "---",3
    $singlespace=$fakepython[2]
}
$doublespace=$singlespace -replace "`n","`n`n"`
$doublespace -replace "\|`n`n","|`n" | set-content $tempfile # restoring single line breaks in the tables so they are recognised
echo "Temp file written to $tempfile"
$outpath=$env:userprofile+"\Vaults\Pandoc_exports\"
$out_word = Split-Path -LeafBase $MarkdownFile # -LeafBase not available in PS 5
$out_word = $out_word + ".docx"
$outfile = $outpath + $out_word
echo "Output file will be $outfile"
if (Test-Path $outfile) {
    Remove-Item $outfile
	echo "removing last attempt at $outfile"
	}
start-process  -FilePath "C:\Program Files\Pandoc\pandoc.exe" -ArgumentList "--output=`"$outfile`" -t docx -f markdown_mmd --standalone --reference-doc=$PandocTemplate $tempfile"
echo "Pandoc complete"

Saved as "prettyword.ps1" in the root of the vault — make a quick shell command to call it, like so: .\prettyword.ps1 {{file_path:absolute}} and then add it to the right-click menu.

[Taitava]

Thank you for this example! 😎