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Just in case anyone is following this, I just released version 2.0 with vastly reworked and simplified UI for all those Zotero-users who are trying out Alfred for the first time: https://chris-grieser.de/pandoc_alfred

oh, you are right, thanks, fixed it.

Oh, and as many people here recommended the last time I published a workflow, I ditched Applescript and picked up some Javascript (and Bash) for this workflow. 🙂

Workflow for Alfred that enables various interactions with Steam launches a game, directly without opening the game library installs from the Steam library uninstalls a game creates a shortcut for a game* searches the Steam Store – in the App or the default Browser launches your wishlist validates game files activates product launch Steam in Big Picture (+ there is a remote trigger for this) automatic updates via OneUpdater Download the Latest Release --- *creating an alias by right-clicking the game in the Steam library does not work in the current Steam version, so this is basically a workaround For any issues/ideas/feedback, feel free to reply here, report an issue at Github, or contact me via info on my website.

What is does This Alfred workflow enables academic citing and publishing with any markdown app like iA Writer, Ulysses, or Scrivener. It does so by offering a Zotero Citation Picker for Pandoc Markdown Citations and by automatically converting Markdown files into `.docx`, `.pdf`, or `.html `with the proper bibliography. This workflow is made for academics like me who neither like Word nor LaTeX. As the name suggests, this workflow is basically a user-friendly interface for Pandoc, allowing you to make use of Pandoc's vast capabilities without ever needing to open the Terminal. Demo Image Download ➡️ Latest Release on GitHub Usage & Installation Guide ➡️ Complete Information on Usage, Installation, & Initial Setup

Thanks (again)! yeah^^ Well thing is, I am not really a coder, only had some computer science classes in school. Up until now; I mainly used Applescript to automate very small stuff, never wrote something with more than ~15 lines of code. Now this Pandoc workflow is the first bigger thing I am ever writing. It was fun, but as coding is neither my day job nor my side job, I don't whether I am ever going to code so much again. But if I do, I will strongly consider using a language other than Applescript. More than one time, I ran into some really unnecessary problems due to it.

So I want to use Applescript (osascript Script Action) to read some variables from the workflow environment. While everything works smoothly, I encountered an issue when the variable included special characters, in my case the German Umlaute (ä ö ü). Via some testing, I could isolate the issue to this: set original to "ä" --this string has also been saved as {var:test} in the Alfred Workflow Envrionment set no_encod_specified to (system attribute "test") set utf8 to (system attribute "test") as «class utf8» set utf16 to (system attribute "test") as Unicode Text return original & " " & no_encod_specified & " " & utf8 & " " & utf16 --result: "ä aÃà aÃà aÃà" Applescript itself handles the special characters correctly, Alfred by itself, too. Only in this case the text is not read properly. When googling for the problem a bit, I quickly ran into some explainers how applescript can read files properly as utf8 or utf16. Bus as displayed in my code example, it didnt help either. I assume I should not the first one to have this issue, but the only thread on it recommended to use sth different than applescript 😕 isn't there a good solution for this?

Is there a reason to do so with one Scripting action but not the other? It took me actually a while to figure out Alfred does this, as I kept looking for errors in my code. Also makes some further actions a bit intransparent, e.g. Alfreds Conditional Utility does not recognize the line break as \n, but (seemingly) only in its "invisible" form.

I have found a bug with the Run Script Action when using osascript. The "result" command always passes on the String with a linebreak at the end, although there shouldnt be one. The problem does not occur when using the Run NSApplescript Action with exactly the same one-line-command. I have put together a small demo showing the problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsk88mnwyojmgdt/demo.alfredworkflow?dl=0

Great, now it works, thank you so much 🤗

Ah I see. Wasn't aware of those, will do, thanks. I see. Okay, now running it now results in another error: "Error running filter pandoc-citeproc: Could not find executable pandoc-citeproc" I assume it's because Alfred now knows the path to pandoc, but not to pandoc-citeproc? If so, how do I tell Alfred that it is simply also located in usr/local/bin/? Tried do shell script, somehow didnt work either... (And I composed the command in AS because I was more familiar with AS)

I tried both. (And I tried running with bin/bash and bin/zsh, also tried argv and {query} and deselecting/selectign escaping characters) Ah, I didn't knew Alfred had its own Debugger. Okay, I tried it and it reports as only Error "/bin/bash: pandoc: command not found". So I guess you are right about PATH? How do I tell Alfred the right PATH then? (sorry, it's my first time with bash) Sure, here is the workflow. Thanks for taking a look! https://www.dropbox.com/s/72fdcj3c8an9xcv/pandoc.alfredworkflow?dl=0

Hi, I am trying to build a workflow that converts a markdown file to a Word document with pandoc. The workflow creates a long string that serves as the pandoc command with all the arguments. Now when I take that string and simply run it in the Terminal, it all works wonderfully. So does running the string in the Terminal Command Action. Now I obviously would like to replace the Terminal Command Action with the Run Script Action, only now the workflow does not work anymore? I deactivated all escaping (just like in the Terminal Command) and just have "{query}" as input, so I am not sure why it doesn't work now. It is my first time scripting something with bash, so I am really not very knowledge with this. But as the very same thing works in Terminal but not in the Run Script Action I assume it's something Alfred-specific that I didn't consider?