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From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A simple Lua filter for Pandoc
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:28:36 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735m3a2iz.fsf@tsdye.online> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yqzu7rx.fsf@posteo.net>


Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Very often I need to convert docx documents to Org. There are a 
> series
> of characters that I prefer to be passed to Org as Org entities 
> and not
> literally, so I have written this little filter in Lua for 
> Pandoc. I
> share it here in case it could be useful to someone. Of course, 
> the
> associative table can be expanded with more replacement cases:
>
> #+begin_src lua :tangle entities.lua
>   local chars = {["/"] = "\\slash{}", ["*"] = "\\lowast{}", 
>   ["<"] = "\\lt{}",
> 	  [">"] = "\\gt{}", ["†"] = "\\dagger{}", [utf8.char(0x00A0)] 
> = "\\nbsp{}"}
>
>   function Str (elem)
>      x = elem.text:match 'http[^%s]'
>      if not x then
> 	for i in pairs(chars) do
> 	   elem = pandoc.Str(elem.text:gsub (i, chars[i]))
> 	end
> 	return elem
>      end
>   end
> #+end_src

Neat!  Converting Word documents is no fun at all.

BTW, Babel support for Lua isn't very good AFAICT.  I poked around 
ob-lua.el recently and concluded that one problem is that the Lua 
interpreter prints pointers for some data types instead of a 
human-readable form that might be parsed.

All the best,
Tom

-- 
Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-04 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-04 10:14 A simple Lua filter for Pandoc Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-04 11:26 ` Timothy
2022-01-04 15:11   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-04 14:05 ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-04 15:06   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-05 16:29     ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-05 17:08       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-07 14:29         ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-07 15:14           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-04 16:28 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]

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