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Simple Citations 1.9.0

Fixes

  • Pandoc export and PDF image export could silently fail on 1.8.0. The
    1.8.0 cleanup switched the Node built-in loader to dynamic import(), which
    throws in Obsidian's renderer. Both commands now load child_process / fs
    / path with require() again.

Improvements

Sample template

  • New Sample template setting under Note content → Additional content:
    pick a built-in Bases view — Same first author, Same journal, or both —
    and it is inserted at the top of every literature note. Each sample is an
    embedded base block that reads this, so there is no template file to
    create or maintain. A configured Template file still takes precedence.

Pandoc and Poppler path detection

  • External tools are now launched with a widened PATH (Homebrew, MacPorts,
    conda/mamba, ~/.local/bin, the standard Windows folders, …), so Pandoc
    Citeproc Execution (docx)
    and Export PDF images work even when Obsidian
    was started from Finder / Dock / GNOME and did not inherit the shell's
    PATH. In most setups no path needs to be configured any more.
  • Each field shows a live status: a green check with "Auto-detected on PATH —
    no path needed"
    when the command already resolves, or a red cross with a
    hint when it does not.
  • New Detect button: searches the common install locations, then asks your
    login shell (command -v, $PATH; where.exe on Windows) — covering tools
    added in .zshrc / .bashrc — and fills in the absolute path.
  • Detection failures are logged to the developer console with a full trace of
    every location checked.
  • Works on macOS, Linux and Windows. The fields are hidden on mobile, where
    these features are unavailable.

Export folder

  • New Detect button next to Export folder: fills in your Downloads
    folder in one click. It follows the XDG user-dirs config on Linux and the
    registry known-folder location on Windows, so a relocated Downloads folder is
    still found.
  • The field now shows a live green check / red cross for whether the configured
    path is an existing directory.