[Feature Request] Property to disable html conversion

[louietan]

[Feature Request] Property to disable html conversion

[biggs]

The usefulness of anki-editor lies in the easy way it exports sub- and super-scripts and prettifies entities, so I use an alternative which doesn't disable HTML but strips out the annoying <p> and </p> tags, adapted from the above post (thanks!). This seems to mostly do what I want, hopefully it will be useful for some others too:

(defun filter-out-p (str _ _)
  (replace-regexp-in-string "\n<p>\\|</p>\n\\|<p>\\|</p>" "" str))

(setq anki-editor--ox-anki-html-backend
  (org-export-create-backend
    :parent 'html
    :filters
      '((:filter-paragraph . filter-out-p))))

[garrett-hopper]

I was just looking for this exact thing; having the <p></p> wrappers doesn't work with many of my card templates which expect the text to be on a single line.

[shouya]

I have done that successfully by overriding anki-editor--ox-anki-html-backend with ascii backend, namely:

(setq anki-editor--ox-anki-html-backend 'ascii)

I agree it may be better to make this variable customizable.

[benthamite]

@biggs This is a great fix. Unfortunately, it will cause org headings consisting of multiple paragraphs to be collapsed into a single paragraph in the exported card. My knowledge of Emacs Lisp is virtually nonexistent and I didn't figure out how to tweak the function to overcome this complication. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[benthamite]

In case it helps anyone, I solved the issue by removing biggs's elisp code snippet above and instead styling the appearance of the cards with the following css code (Tools > Manage note types > Cards > Styling):

p:first-of-type {
    margin: 0px;
}

So your notes will have the <p></p> wrappers, but this won't affect how the cards are displayed, except insofar as multi-paragraph cards will show correctly.