sushy VS obsidian-pandoc

Very nice. Like my own stuff, you have an index file and dependent media per folder, which is the only real way to scale out beyond a few dozen pages (my site has… a few more - https://taoofmac.com/static/graph)

One suggestion I’d make is to do two passes—one to index all the inter-page links, another to actually render the templates. I do that (and full text search) with SQLite: https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy/blob/master/sushy/models.py

I am using roughly 200 lines of Fennel to do that, and my current website (taoofmac.com) is nothing more than 17+ years of that exact approach, but using Python.

If you’re looking for inspiration, the older source code is up at https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy. The current version is pure Python 3, but I haven’t cleaned it up for public use (and likely never will, since I want to do something simpler now).

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.