== extraction accross multiple blocks of text

[santiyounger]

Hey, thanks for making this, it has certainly been my most anticipated plugin.

I found a bit of an issue/request

I am extracting big sections of text highlights from a long file.

they are usually parragraphs / multiple blocks of text.

I realized that using == in multiple lines/blocks doesn't detect the extraction correctly into the clipboard.

for instance

== this is a single block highlight. if I keep everything within a single block of text there won't be any problems==

compared to this

==if I split this highlight between multiple lines/blocks

the plugin won't extract it into the clipboard==

if it's not possible to fix this through the syntax of ==equal signs==

perhaps this issue could be solved by also allowing to extract sections of text by using the<mark> tag

<mark>
 this way it's easy to define an opening point

as well as an ending point

accross several blocks of text
</mark>

let me know if it'd be useful to provide more examples, perhaps with obsidian screenshots

thanks for the help, and really appreciate the excellent plugin

[akaalias]

Hi Santi! No, this is great. Thank you for letting me know. I'll look into this case soon and keep you posted here.

[santiyounger]

Thank you, sound good, after looking further into my type of notes, I think the cleanest way to solve this would be to enable the use of <mark> and </mark> for more precision with opening and closing the highlight.

Thanks a lot! Let me know if there's any way I can help

[akaalias]

Hi Santi, I've fixed the issue and will now upload a new release. I personally prefer using == instead of (just for my own way of flow highlighting)

Please note that at least for me, Obsidian doesn't highlight multi-block highlights either (see demo)

[akaalias]

Yup, it's in release 0.0.4 - Easily updated via third-party-plugins in Obsidian :)

[santiyounger]

awesome thank you, works great! and you are right blocks highlights seems to be an Obsidian limitation.

This is why still think <mark> </mark> would really help, I was suggesting it more as an additional way to highlight, yet not a replacment of ==.

it'd be awesome if it were possible to add <mark> as an additional option, but I understand if it's tricky to implement it.

Overall, thanks for taking a look at this, even if highlight isn't correctly showed (due to obsidian's block limitations) the plugin extracts it correctly.

Thank you

[akaalias]

Good news! I've added support to extract highlights by <mark>...</mark> - It's in today's release -> https://github.com/akaalias/extract-highlights-plugin/releases/tag/0.0.5

What's still wonky is how I'm flattening newlines at the moment. So, if you have this:

<mark>
this way it's easy to define an opening point

as well as an ending point

accross several blocks of text
</mark>

I'm currently replacing the newlines with a space. That's not ideal but that'll take some time to figure out.

Anyways, basic support for <mark></mark> is in there. Hope this helps!

[santiyounger]

thank you so much @akaalias, works great! super happy with it, can't wait to see how this plug in grows. Thank you for speding time adding this feature, means a lot!