Plain Text exporter

The Plain Text exporter converts rendered Markdown documents to plain text by stripping all formatting while preserving readable content structure.

This exporter is primarily used internally by other components:

• Search indexing — the Elasticsearch exporter uses plain text conversion to generate the searchable body of each document
• Content extraction — other exporters use plain text as an intermediate step

The exporter:

• Strips all Markdown formatting (bold, italic, links, etc.)
• Removes directive syntax and renders only the content within
• Preserves paragraph and heading structure as whitespace
• Resolves substitution variables to their values