fix: resolve #901

src/shared/export/export-to-markdown.tsx

@@ -2,18 +2,23 @@ import { LoomState } from "../loom-state/types/loom-state";
 import { markdownTable } from "markdown-table";
 import { loomStateToArray } from "./loom-state-to-array";
 import { App } from "obsidian";
-import { escapePipeCharacters } from "./export-utils";
+import {
+	escapePipeCharacters,
+	replaceNewLinesWithBreaks,
+} from "./export-utils";
 
 export const exportToMarkdown = (
 	app: App,
 	loomState: LoomState,
 	shouldRemoveMarkdown: boolean
 ): string => {
-	const arr = loomStateToArray(app, loomState, shouldRemoveMarkdown);
+	let arr = loomStateToArray(app, loomState, shouldRemoveMarkdown);
+
+	//Markdown table cells can't contain new lines, so we replace them with <br> tags
+	arr = arr.map((row) => row.map((cell) => replaceNewLinesWithBreaks(cell)));
+
 	//Markdown table cells can't contain pipe characters, so we escape them
 	//Obsidian will render the escaped pipe characters as normal pipe characters
-	const escapedArr = arr.map((row) =>
-		row.map((cell) => escapePipeCharacters(cell))
-	);
-	return markdownTable(escapedArr);
+	arr = arr.map((row) => row.map((cell) => escapePipeCharacters(cell)));
+	return markdownTable(arr);
 };

src/shared/export/export-utils.ts

@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 export const escapePipeCharacters = (value: string) =>
 	value.replace(/\|/g, "\\|");
+
+export const replaceNewLinesWithBreaks = (value: string) =>
+	value.replace(/\n/g, "<br>");