Omd2Typst

Export your Obsidian notes to professionally typeset PDFs — with a structured cover page, auto-numbered table of contents, callout blocks, tables, images, and support for five languages — using Typst, a modern document compiler.

Desktop only — macOS, Windows, Linux. Not available on mobile.

Screenshots

Command palette

Command palette showing the four Omd2Typst commands:

Settings

Default settings

Default settings, without Typst installed. No export to PDF, only export to .typ.

Configured settings

Configured settings with, sample template, installed Typst version and template for the frontmatter.

Context menu

The right-click context menu with the two options "Export as PDF" and "Export as Typst".

Frontmatter

Frontmatter from the sample input file. with the Sample input file with frontmatter

PDF output

The sample PDF output, shows the Typst generated output from the input file. Download the example input files and templates to get started.

This partial PDF output shows the added front page, the added revision and approval page and the table-of-contents. The optional figure-list is not shown here.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.4.0 or later
• Typst — required for PDF export
  • Install: brew install typst (macOS) · winget install --id Typst.Typst (Windows) · or download from typst.app
  • The plugin searches common locations automatically; no path configuration needed in most cases
  • Without Typst, .typ source export still works — PDF export shows an install notice

Installation

Via the Community Plugin browser (recommended)

1. In Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse
2. Search for Omd2Typst
3. Click Install, then Enable

Manual install

1. Download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release
2. Create a folder .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-omd2typst/ inside your vault
3. Copy both files into that folder
4. In Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → enable Omd2Typst

Features

• Export the active note as PDF or Typst source (.typ) from the command palette or the right-click file menu
• Cover page — populated from YAML frontmatter (title, subtitle, author, date, version, status, summary)
• Table of contents with numbered headings
• Revision and approval tables — extracted from named sections and placed before the TOC
• 13 callout types with Lucide SVG icons (note, tip, warning, danger, bug, quote, …)
• 10 checkbox variants (- [ ] to - [*])
• Custom templates — register any .typ file in your vault; .typ files are visible in the vault navigator and file pickers without enabling Show all file types; supported languages are detected automatically
• Five languages — nl · en · de · es · fr; the default language dropdown updates automatically when you switch templates
• Frontmatter insertion — insert a configurable YAML frontmatter block; existing keys are never overwritten
• Output location — same folder as note, fixed folder (with vault autocomplete), or ask every time

Commands

Settings

Typst templates

Export

The top of the Export section shows the detected Typst version and path, or "Typst not found" with an install hint. This is a status indicator — not a configurable option.

Document defaults

Frontmatter template source modes

Supported Markdown features

Full coverage of standard Markdown plus the most-used Obsidian extensions:

For the complete feature reference including YAML frontmatter keys, callout icon colours, and checkbox meanings, see the omd2typst README.

Template authoring

Templates are standard Typst files that export a template function (document wrapper) and a callout function.

Declare supported languages by defining a _lang_strings dictionary:

#let _lang_strings = (
  "nl": ( toc: "Inhoudsopgave", ... ),
  "en": ( toc: "Table of Contents", ... ),
)

The plugin detects language support automatically — no annotation needed. Language codes appear as badges in the template list and limit the Default language dropdown.

To start from the built-in template, run Export built-in template — it writes omd2typst-template.typ to the vault root.

Privacy

The plugin makes no network requests and collects no data. All processing is local:

• Markdown-to-Typst conversion runs inside a WASM module bundled inside main.js
• PDF compilation runs the locally installed typst binary via child_process
• No analytics, no telemetry, no external services

Contributing

src/
  main.ts           — plugin lifecycle, commands, context menus
  settings.ts       — settings types, defaults, and settings tab UI
  exporter.ts       — export pipeline: read note → WASM → write output / compile PDF
  frontmatter.ts    — frontmatter parse, merge, and insert logic
  template.ts       — template language detection and resolution
  output.ts         — output path resolution for all three output modes
  typst-cli.ts      — findTypstBinary, detectSystemTypst, compileToPdfViaCli
  wasm/
    omd2typst.ts    — lazy-init wrapper around omd2typst WASM
    omd2typst-pkg/  — generated by wasm-pack (gitignored; WASM bundled into main.js at build)
libs/
  omd2typst/        — git submodule: omd2typst Rust repo (pinned commit)
scripts/
  build-wasm.sh     — runs wasm-pack inside the submodule

git submodule update --init       # pull omd2typst Rust source
./scripts/build-wasm.sh           # wasm-pack build → src/wasm/omd2typst-pkg/
npm install                        # dev dependencies
npm run build                      # esbuild → main.js (omd2typst WASM bundled in)
npm test                           # Jest unit tests

VAULT=~/path/to/your/vault
mkdir -p "$VAULT/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-omd2typst"
cp main.js manifest.json "$VAULT/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-omd2typst/"