* Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
@ 2014-05-21 10:47 Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 12:04 ` Bastien
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From: Tory S. Anderson @ 2014-05-21 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
We often read online articles with headings and sometimes subheadings. They may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all of which are supported by Org. Is there any way to preserve this formatting if I copy-paste into org/emacs, the same way it's preserved when I paste into Word or into a Google Document/email? Or is this fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a tremendous feature.
- Tory
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* Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
2014-05-21 10:47 Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML Tory S. Anderson
@ 2014-05-21 12:04 ` Bastien
2014-05-21 12:06 ` Albert Krewinkel
2014-05-21 18:52 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
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From: Bastien @ 2014-05-21 12:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tory S. Anderson; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Tory,
torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> We often read online articles with headings and sometimes
> subheadings. They may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all
> of which are supported by Org. Is there any way to preserve this
> formatting if I copy-paste into org/emacs, the same way it's preserved
> when I paste into Word or into a Google Document/email? Or is this
> fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a tremendous feature.
It would be easy to code something that sometimes works, with a dumb
parsing of the most common HTML tags and rendering into Org syntax.
But this would be really fragile and doing it right is fundamentally
difficult.
I'd love to see someone proves me I'm too pessimistic, though.
Best,
--
Bastien
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* Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
2014-05-21 10:47 Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 12:04 ` Bastien
@ 2014-05-21 12:06 ` Albert Krewinkel
2014-05-23 17:31 ` Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 18:52 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
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From: Albert Krewinkel @ 2014-05-21 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tory S. Anderson; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> We often read online articles with headings and sometimes subheadings. They
> may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all of which are supported by
> Org. Is there any way to preserve this formatting if I copy-paste into
> org/emacs, the same way it's preserved when I paste into Word or into a Google
> Document/email? Or is this fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a
> tremendous feature.
A suggestion for a workaround: You might get decent results using
Pandoc[1] and pandoc-mode[2]. Pandoc can parse HTML and convert it to
org-mode markup. There is also a helpful answer on stackexchange[3]
(just replace "markdown" with "org). You might be able to use the above
tools to integrate the mentioned techniques into org's capture mechanism.
HTH,
Albert
[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
[2] https://github.com/joostkremers/pandoc-mode
[3] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78395/
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Albert Krewinkel
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* Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
2014-05-21 10:47 Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML Tory S. Anderson
2014-05-21 12:04 ` Bastien
2014-05-21 12:06 ` Albert Krewinkel
@ 2014-05-21 18:52 ` Ilya Shlyakhter
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From: Ilya Shlyakhter @ 2014-05-21 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
> We often read online articles with headings and sometimes
> subheadings. They may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all
> of which are supported by Org. Is there any way to preserve this
> formatting if I copy-paste into org/emacs, the same way it's preserved
> when I paste into Word or into a Google Document/email? Or is this
> fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a tremendous feature.
There is an extension for doing this when copying from emacs-w3m into
org: http://orgmode.org/w/?p=org-mode.git;a=blob_plain;f=lisp/org-w3m.el;hb=HEAD
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* Re: Preserve formatting when copy/pasting from HTML
2014-05-21 12:06 ` Albert Krewinkel
@ 2014-05-23 17:31 ` Tory S. Anderson
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From: Tory S. Anderson @ 2014-05-23 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Albert Krewinkel; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
I'm thoroughly impressed by pandoc. Quite the magnificent program! Using pandoc and xclip I was able to do what I wanted. As you mentioned, I am able to copy from, say, a wikipedia page, and paste as (mostly) properly formatted org code. My code is:
while :; do
xclip -o -selection clipboard -t text/html |
pandoc -r html -w org |
xclip -i -selection clipboard -quiet
done
Thanks!
- Tory
Albert Krewinkel <tarleb@moltkeplatz.de> writes:
> torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes:
>
>> We often read online articles with headings and sometimes subheadings. They
>> may also include bold, italic, and hyperlinks, all of which are supported by
>> Org. Is there any way to preserve this formatting if I copy-paste into
>> org/emacs, the same way it's preserved when I paste into Word or into a Google
>> Document/email? Or is this fundamentally difficult in emacs? It would be a
>> tremendous feature.
>
> A suggestion for a workaround: You might get decent results using
> Pandoc[1] and pandoc-mode[2]. Pandoc can parse HTML and convert it to
> org-mode markup. There is also a helpful answer on stackexchange[3]
> (just replace "markdown" with "org). You might be able to use the above
> tools to integrate the mentioned techniques into org's capture mechanism.
>
> HTH,
> Albert
>
> [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc
> [2] https://github.com/joostkremers/pandoc-mode
> [3] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78395/
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