underscore are discarded inside the table of content

[didierGuieu]

Hello

When headers contain underscore _, the underscore is removed inside the toc.

the toc should keep the underscore that come from the header.

How to reproduce :

test_with_underscore

_test_with_an_other_underscore

Tested on MacOs with obsidian 1.5.12

plugins installed:

• Automatic Table Of Contents
• Custom file explorer sorting
• Editing Toolbar

Thanks.

[johansatge]

Hi,

this is "expected" in the current implementation because markdown characters (*_ etc) are naively stripped from the link text, as it's not possible to have styles there (see Known issues in the readme)

But there are probably possible improvements, feel free to share methods to strip markdown characters in a more efficient way 🙏

[didierGuieu]

what do you use to strip the markdown characters ?

[johansatge]

obsidian-automatic-table-of-contents/main.js

Lines 177 to 182 in f6af983

	const stripMarkdown = (text) => {
	text = text.replaceAll('*', '').replaceAll('_', '').replaceAll('`', '')
	text = text.replaceAll('==', '').replaceAll('~~', '')
	text = text.replace(/\[([^\]]+)\]\([^)]+\)/g, '$1') // Strip markdown links
	return text
	}

[didierGuieu]

If I clearly understand text is the whole header.
Something strange in Obsidian is that all the code are interpreted inside the word except the underscore.
Perhaps, we could strip the underscore in a different way by removing them only at the begining or the end of the word.
Another solution should be to support the escape code and only remove the escape code and keeping the caracter after.
Need some other thoughts about it and how to do it in JS.

[didierGuieu]

Last option but the simpler : Adding an option inside the toc for discarding the MD code or not inside the link.
Surely the simpliest solution

[MikeMMS]

I suggest placing the link after the text. For example, if this is the original text:

text

We can simply add a link after it like this:

text [link]

Alternatively, we could implement auto-numbering and include the link within the numbered section. For instance, "1.2" could also serve as a link:

1.2 text

Above approaches offer additional benefit, such as preserving the original pretty formatting of the text done by various plugs/themes/users, while also addressing issues #24 and #27.

[MikeMMS]

In my case as a user of Numbering Plugins , if the second approach is chosen, we can add an option to let the user decide whether the numbering is provided by the text. If yes, just add link to the stuff before the first space is enough.