Hey everyone! Is there any way to configure dendron to use brackets \( \) and \[ \] for defining latex blocks instead of using dollar signs?

No unfortunately. Brackets could conflict with other Markdown syntax. Please feel free to send a feature request for it though.

Honestly curious what markdown syntax it would conflict with? Especially because latex brackets are escaped when defining a math block

\[ \]

[...](...)

gets used to define links and

![...](...)

is used to embed images (and sometimes other media in some variants): https://commonmark.org/help/tutorial/07-links.html

[[...]]

is also used for wikilinks

Is the QuickStart guide on GitHub pages up to date? I can’t seem to get it to work

It could also conflict with footnote definitions like

[^footnote]

, but I guess it would be safe with the backslashes. I didn't mean to say we can't do it, my bad!

Do you mean for publishing to GitHub pages? It was recently updated, could you send me the guide you are looking at, and where you are having trouble?

I just get errors when the action runs

I’ll find it real fast

If it's a public repository I can take a look at the errors. Let me also tag @ScriptAutomate who I think wrote the guide.

It’s here

It looks like the dendron build action works successfully, but there's another action you have configured which is trying to run a Jekyll build

Where is that? I just followed the guide step by step after using the NetIfly guide

just took a quick look. Github Pages automatically runs their own Jekyll build process if the repo doesn't have a

.nojekyll

file present at top level. (see https://github.com/dendronhq/template.publish.github/) I believe not having it caused github pages run the jekyll process which would fail and block what should have run.

@glucinater21 Ah that's it, the repo is using the netlify template and not the Github template: https://github.com/dendronhq/template.publish.github-action

Ah that makes sense, how do I change which template is being used?

I think you'd have to create a new repo, but try adding a file

.nojekyll

first and see if that fixes it.

That didn’t work, should I just make a new template with the GitHub template?

GitHub actions never worked for me, private or public and after my conversations with the team I thought that was a known problem. Last I heard it was looked at a while back. Is this supposed to be functional now? @User Can we have a video walk-through to show the steps and confirm that it is working? If this method is not ready, perhaps the docs should reflect that. If it is partially ready (e.g., not with private repos, not via PowerShell) than the docs should reflect that. Cheers.

Yes, the guide was updated recently and should work now.

That's great. Keen to try but if that video walk-though is possible, it would be very confidence inducing, especially given the above question that started this thread.

publishing-template-updates

Has anyone had problems renaming notes where the backlinking notes don't get their links updated?

We have identified a few cases where this happens. mostly when the rename happens with

Refactor Hierarchy

where bulk operations happen. Can you elaborate on the setup that this happened? We will be fixing this very soon and identifying any edge cases that we may have missed would be really helpful.

Is it just me, or is Dendron pretty slow?

We are working on improving several things that are slow right now (anything that looks up notes takes a bit if there are lots of notes), is there anything specific you find slow?

I just started with dendron. What I noticed so far - when opening a workspace the extension itself takes multiple seconds. By far the slowest loading ext I have - creating a note, also takes seconds until it appears. - updating Markdown Preview seems to happen in some intervall and not realtime as other markdown previews. I will try this on my personal Laptop later

That doesn't sound normal, the first startup can take a bit because Dendron needs to look at all notes but that should be faster with later loads. I don't think I've heard of any slowdowns with creating notes or preview, please file a bug report on GitHub if this keeps happening. I'd just recommend making sure you are on the latest VSCode and Dendron versions.