Compile Step: Remove Call-outs

[pdworkman]

What should this step do?
I would like a step that will remove all call-outs in the text.

Should this step affect scenes, manuscripts, or join the two?
scenes/manuscripts

[pdworkman]

Here is a script to remove all call-outs

module.exports = {
  description: {
    name: "Remove Callouts",
    description: "Removes all Obsidian callout blocks and one blank line after each.",
    availableKinds: ["Scene"],
    options: [],
  },

  compile(input, context) {
    return input.map(scene => {
      const lines = scene.contents.split("\n");
      const resultLines = [];
      let inCallout = false;
      let skipNextBlank = false;

      for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
        const line = lines[i];

        // Start of a callout block
        if (/^>\s*\[!\w+.*?\]/.test(line)) {
          inCallout = true;
          continue; // skip this line
        }

        if (inCallout) {
          if (/^>/.test(line)) {
            continue; // still in callout, skip line
          } else {
            // Exiting callout block
            inCallout = false;
            // If this line is blank, skip it and continue to next
            if (/^\s*$/.test(line)) {
              continue; // skip this one blank line
            }
          }
        }

        // Not in callout, add line to result
        resultLines.push(line);
      }

      return {
        ...scene,
        contents: resultLines.join("\n"),
      };
    });
  },
};

To add this custom step to your vault:

1. create a /steps folder inside your vault.
2. copy the above text into a text file and save it as remove-callouts.js
3. go into the settings for the longform plugin and select /steps as the location for User script step folder