Text Format

Sometimes I encounter some issues like

I copy some text from pdf or some other source, but the copied content is out of format. For example, there are more than one space between words or one paragraph brokes into several lines.
I want to lowercase the letters when they are all uppercase, etc.

Therefore, I wrote this plugin to format selected text lowercase/uppercase/capitalize/titlecase or remove redundant spaces/newline characters, and other features listed below.

Install this plugin right now: obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-text-format

Features

Press cmd/ctrl+P to enter the command. 👇

Or you can consider to bind custom hotkeys to those commands according to #29.

⚙️: There is setting of this command.

Basic

Command	Description
Lowercase selected text	Lowercase all letters in selection
Uppercase selected text	Uppercase all letters in selection
Capitalize all words in selected text ⚙️	Capitalize all words in selection
Capitalize only first word of sentence in selected text ⚙️	Capitalize only first word of sentence(s) in selection
Title case selected text ⚙️	Capitalize words but leave certain words in lower case in selection (Note: not support Cyrillic strings for now) #1
Tooglecaseselected text ⚙️	A custom loop to format the selection

List

Command	Description
Format bullet list ⚙️	Change `•` into bullet list, i.e. `-` ; split every bullet point into single line; and remove blank lines.
Format ordered list	Change `*)`(star could be any letter) into ordered list (e.g. `1.` , `2.` ); split every ordered point into single line; and remove blank lines. (#4)
Convert table to bullet list	The first volume is 1st list, other volumes are sub-list
Convert table to bullet list with header	Sub-list begins with `${header}:`
Sort to-do list	#37

Links

Command	Description
Remove WikiLinks format in selection	Convert `[[WikiLinks]]` to `WikiLinks` (#28)
Remove URL links format in selection	Convert `[Google](www.google.com)` to `Google`
Convert URL links to WikiLinks in selection	Convert `[Google](www.google.com)` to `[[Google]]`

PDF copy / OCR

Command	Description
Remove redundant spaces in selection	Ensure only one space between words
Remove blank line(s)	replace `\n\n` with `\n`
Merge broken paragraph(s) in selection ⚙️	Change selected lines into single-line, except lines are separated by blank line(s). At the same time, blank lines will be merged into one blank line(optional, default enable), and redundant spaces will be removed(optional, default enable).
Remove hyphens	Remove hyphens (like when pasting text from pdf) #15
Split line(s) by blanks	Replace with `\n` for OCR use case.
Convert to Chinese character (,;:!?) ⚙️	For OCR use case. (For who require more custom setting, I would recommend https://p.gantrol.com/)
Replace ligature	Replace ligature to Non-ligature #24

Academic/Study

Command	Description
Convert selection into Anki card format	#32
Remove citation index	e.g., `A research [12] about notes` => `A research about notes`
Zotero note format and paste ⚙️	See below ⬇️

Zotero format

The format template can refer to https://www.zotero.org/support/note_templates

default
- zotero: {{highlight quotes='true'}} {{citation}} {{comment}}
- plugin config: “(?<text>.*)” $(?<item>.*?)$ $\[pdf\]\((?<pdf_url>.*?)$\)
- result: {text} [🔖]({pdf_url})

Convert citation index to the file name of paper note

With bib-cacher, I can connect to Zotero database by python, building a simple Flask server.

Example of command Custom API Request:

- A survey concludes that obsidian is a good app [12]. Furthermore, The note taking...
+ A survey concludes that obsidian is a good app ([[File Name of the Reference]]). Furthermore, The note taking...

Others

Command	Description
Custom Wrapper ⚙️	Add any arbitrary wrapping element in Setting. (Benature/obsidian-underline#5) See below for more examples ⬇️
Decode URL	Decode URL for better reading and shorter url.
Convert single letter into math mode	e.g. convert `P` into $P$ (latex), apply for all single letter except `a`.
Convert Mathpix array to markdown table	Convert latex array generated by Mathpix to markdown table format
Add extra double spaces per paragraph for whole file	Add double spaces at the end of every paragraph #8
Custom API Request ⚙️	Replace Selection with the return of custom API request. The selection will be sent to custom API URL with `POST` method. (No user data is collected!) There is an example of my use case.

Wrapper

e.g.

Underline: prefix=, suffix=, then selected text will turn into text
Font color: #30

Support

If you find this plugin useful and would like to support its development, you can sponsor me via Buy Me a Coffee ☕️, WeChat or Alipay, thank you!

Some Example

lowercase

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ hello, i am using obsidian.

uppercase

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ HELLO, I AM USING OBSIDIAN.

capitalize word

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I Am Using Obsidian.

capitalize sentence

- hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I am using Obsidian.
  ^

title case

- Obsidian is a good app.
+ Obsidian Is a Good App.
              ^

redundant spaces

- There  are so   many redundant      blanks
+ There are so many redundant blanks

merge broken paragraph

- This paragraph is broken 
- into several lines. I want 
- those lines merged!
- 
- And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between 
- two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into 
- one paragraph!

+ This paragraph is broken into several lines. I want those lines merged!
+
+ And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into one paragraph!

bullet list

- • first, blahblah • second, blahblah • third, blahblah

+ - first, blahblah 
+ - second, blahblah 
+ - third, blahblah

ordered list

- a) first, blahblah b) second, blahblah c) third, blahblah
- i) first, blahblah ii) second, blahblah iii) third, blahblah

+ 1. first, blahblah 
+ 2. second, blahblah 
+ 3. third, blahblah

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