Output to regular markdown after processing short codes

[NickBelhomme]

Hi,
Hugo markdown uses shortcodes to perform a lot of magic, so reordering a page will still work for links, page content does not need to be copied over thanks to include and such.

However I also need hugo to create vanilla markdown documents where the includes and refs etc are replaced with the real values…

Is there official - or even unofficial because someone implemented it themselves - support for this already?

This question has been asked 3 years ago, however maybe the answer has evolved?

See Markdown output after shortcode processing

Is there any way to see the output of Markdown after the shortcodes are processed? Or in other words is there a way to have standard Markdown as an alternative output in addition to HTML? Shortcodes are useful for maintaining brevity, but since the pages that use shortcodes are not plain Markdown other tools cannot as easily reuse the Markdown. I’d like to wrap up all pages up as an ePUB book. I can use a tool like Pandoc to easily convert Markdown to various formats including ePUB, but the sho…

thanks,
Nick

[pointyfar]

Have a look at Custom Output Formats | Hugo

[NickBelhomme]

@pointyfar I saw that page, it does not describe output in markdown…
Thanks for taking a look though.

[pointyfar]

Hence you need to create a new custom output format.

You also need to configure a custom mediaType, i.e. "text/markdown" or something similar.