obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/ea-scripts/Split text by lines.md

/*

requires Excalidraw 1.5.1 or higher

Download this file and save to your Obsidian Vault including the first line, or open it in "Raw" and copy the entire contents to Obsidian.

Split lines of text into separate text elements for easier reorganization

See documentation for more details: https://zsviczian.github.io/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/ExcalidrawScriptsEngine.html

*/
elements = ea.getViewSelectedElements().filter((el)=>el.type==="text");
elements.forEach((el)=>{
  ea.style.strokeColor = el.strokeColor;
  ea.style.fontFamily  = el.fontFamily;
  ea.style.fontSize    = el.fontSize;
  const text = el.text.split("\n");
  for(i=0;i<text.length;i++) {
	ea.addText(el.x,el.y+i*el.height/text.length,text[i]);
  }
});
ea.addElementsToView();
ea.deleteViewElements(elements);