quartz/docs/features/OxHugo compatibility.md

---
title: "OxHugo Compatibility"
tags:
  - feature/transformer
---

[org-roam](https://www.orgroam.com/) is a plain-text personal knowledge management system for [emacs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs). [ox-hugo](https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo) is org exporter backend that exports `org-mode` files to [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) compatible Markdown.

Because the Markdown generated by ox-hugo is not pure Markdown but Hugo specific, we need to transform it to fit into Quartz. This is done by the [[OxHugoFlavoredMarkdown]] plugin. Even though this plugin was written with `ox-hugo` in mind, it should work for any Hugo specific Markdown.

```typescript title="quartz.config.ts"
plugins: {
  transformers: [
    Plugin.FrontMatter({ delims: "+++", language: "toml" }), // if toml frontmatter
    // ...
    Plugin.OxHugoFlavouredMarkdown(),
    Plugin.GitHubFlavoredMarkdown(),
    // ...
  ],
},
```

## Usage

Quartz by default doesn't understand `org-roam` files as they aren't Markdown. You're responsible for using an external tool like `ox-hugo` to export the `org-roam` files as Markdown content to Quartz and managing the static assets so that they're available in the final output.

## Configuration

This functionality is provided by the [[OxHugoFlavoredMarkdown]] plugin. See the plugin page for customization options.