Converted EN code blocks should not escape characters

[luckman212]

• yarle v3.8.2 (run from npx)
• npm 7.4.3

I am really happy to have this tool, thank you 🙏

My notes make heavy use of code blocks, and I am finding the converted notes need a lot of cleanup, because characters such as _ or [ get escaped as \_ or \[ — even though they are contained within fenced code blocks ``` in markdown.

At this point I am just deleting the code blocks after conversion, then copy/pasting them from Evernote into Obsidian using ⌘+⇧+V which avoids the escaping...

[joaosa]

Have you tried setting keepMDCharactersOfENNotes to true? 😄

[luckman212]

Thanks @joaosa - I thought that option was meant to indicate that I wrote my EN notes in markdown format. Maybe I mis-understood that. Anyway, I did have better success with these options set like so in my config:

"monospaceIsCodeBlock": false,
"keepMDCharactersOfENNotes": true

[akosbalasko]

Hi @luckman212 ,
Your settings looks fine, keepMDCharactersOfENNotes specifies that if you used MD syntax in your EN notes, then they won't be escaped (I think even within code-blocks, right? ), and setting monospaceIsCodeBlock to false will recognize the EN codeblocks, not the 'legacy' solution in EN when the codeblocks were denoted by setting their font to monospace. Is there anything else you recognized that the converter processes wrongly?

[luckman212]

Thanks @akosbalasko - it's doing a very good job. I need to look into the Templates more to see about customizing that. But, one thing off the top of my head: "naked" URLs are getting converted like this (example)

Evernote:

Google: https://www.google.com

After conversion with Yarle:

Google: <https://www.google.com>

So, just the extra < and > ... not sure if it can be avoided...

[medmunds]

Fix for extra escaping in code blocks (with keepMDCharactersOfENNotes at default false) is in PR #281.

[bumper314]

Related to this issue, Evernote allows code blocks to have formatting, which can be really ugly when converted to Markdown, so it would be nice to have an option to convert code blocks to plain text.

EDIT: Turns out this is actually a bug from Evernote legacy, all I had to do in Evernote 10 was manually toggle the "language" selector for each codeblock, then they converted fine with YARLE.