Local default file (Obsidian use case)

[lduperval]

Hi,

My situation is this: I'm using Pandoc within Obsidian, and depending on where I am in my vault, sometimes I want to convert with specific options; other times, I want to use the defaults.

The way the Pandoc plugin in Obsidian works, I have to specify any command-line option (--defaults) in the global setting. If the file isn't present in a folder, the whole thing fails.

I would like the ability to set a default local config file and have Pandoc load it if it's there and apply whatever the rules of --defaults are. Otherwise, it uses the global defaults.

Another option would be an option to ignore non-fatal errors, but I fail to see how that could work across all use cases.

I looked at the docs and I don't see something that will allow me to do this, but I could be wrong.

Would it be useful to anyone other than me? If I wanted to add that to a local version of Pandoc, where would I look in the code? (Not saying I will do it, but if I can just replace the Pandoc binary with a version that does it… maybe?)

Thanks,

L

[jgm]

By "ignore non-fatal errors," I assume you mean the error you get when the default file you specify isn't present? It seems you could easily write a little shell script wrapper that would check for the presence of this file and call pandoc with --defaults only if it is present.