honkit VS obsidian-pandoc

Azu created 500+ npm packages, wrote and maintains a number of popular command line tools for JavaScript. textlint has 2,751 stars, Secretlint has 698 stars. honkit for building books has 2,896 stars.

Since I see a few people in these comments mourning the general dive that gitbook has taken over the last few years, you might like this, an actively-maintained fork of gitbook as it was before it got bad:

https://github.com/honkit/honkit

Not sure if it's possible inside obsidian but there are other tools out there to create books from different markdown files, like https://github.com/honkit/honkit for example

I'm currently waiting for calibre to install so I can try with honkit instead

Continuously committed repositories include JSer.info, textlint, and JavaScript Primer, etc. On the other hand, the newly created ones after the launch of GitHub Sponsors include philan.net, HonKit, Secretlint, etc.

I look at the source code, it is using https://github.com/honkit/honkit to build

First, based on https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-Templates and https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/latex-template.html, I created a pandoc template in ~/.pandoc/templates/ and put this latex code in a mytemplate.latex file:

As an aside, if you do any sort of academic writing, the Zotero Integration + Pandoc plug-ins have been a game changer. It is quite an intense rabbit hole (at least for me as a humanities person) that took me to the command line, but one I’m glad I traveled down. In essence, it allows me to thoughtlessly create a fantastic first draft WITH an automatic bibliography…so, so nice to have.

As for markdown, it is much simpler than docx while having the basic formatting you'd need for writing. To export my markdown files to docx for web, I use the Pandoc extension, and you can also install and manage extensions and themes from within the app, so you don't need to code things in manually unless you want to add snippets, which there is plenty of help on the Obsidian forums.

There's a Pandoc plugin too, just so you know: https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc

You could use pandoc and specify the twocolumn option (please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/34809186). You could use pandoc standalone or use it through some Obsidian plugins (obsidian-pandoc, obsidian-enhancing-export)

Have you taken a look at obsidian-pandoc?

Have you checked out the Obsidian Pandoc plugin? I think it might meet your needs:

https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc

That being said standard Markdown does not provide notation for certain things, so it is somewhat up to interpretation how to convert certain features to standard Markdown.

It does look like the Pandoc plugin can combine documents by processing a master note and any related notes that are linked with the embed link syntax.