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Some articles saved in Omnivore do not render correctly in Obsidian. For example, the article Abbreviations - Web Accessibility Guidance project - NZ Government contains <abbr> HTML tags surrounded by <code> </code> tags so that it does not render the abbreviation, but Omnivore is not translating this to Markdown style `code` surrounded by backticks. This causes the article highlights to render incorrectly in reading mode on Obsidian, and to break the associated web page on my digital garden.

As an alternative, I have added the #omnivore-bug label to problematic articles and in Omnivore's Obsidian plugin have added the filter -label:omnivore-bug so that those articles are not synced to Obsidian. Instead, I place the articles in this folder so I can still reference these sources within my digital garden.

Can't you just edit the article in Obsidian?

No, syncing from Omnivore to Obsidian is one-way. If I make changes to the Markdown file of a synced article in Obsidian, those changes are not updated within Omnivore. Furthermore, when using the Omnivore: Resync all articles command in Obsidian, any manual changes made to the markdown file are reverted by Omnivore.

Moving the problematic articles to a new folder and filtering them out of the sync with the omnivore-bug label allows me to safely make manual edits to the Markdown files.

What then?

The recurring issue I have found is with HTML content within <code> </code> tags on websites not being placed within `backticks` when synced to Obsidian. I can manually make the adjustments myself to place them within backticks.

It's not all Omnivore's fault

As well as articles and documents, i also save forum comments and posts, such as a useful answer in a StackOverflow discussion. Code written in these is not guaranteed to be fenced with <code> tags, as the comment author may not need to worry about the comment system trying to render the HTML (depending on the forum).

These may also need to be manually entered.

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