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From: Richard Lawrence <richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [OT] Importing plain text attachments into Org
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:22:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqrnf8v9.fsf@berkeley.edu> (raw)

Dear Orgsters,

I'm hoping I can solicit a little advice about pulling email attachments
into Org (via Gnus), since some of the folks on this list seem to have
experience interacting with Gnus from Org.  I realize that the meat of
my question may be better asked on the Gnus list, but if anyone here has
knowledge and/or a similar setup that you'd be willing to share, I would
very much appreciate hearing about it.

The background: I am about to begin teaching a writing-intensive course.
Students will email me their papers every week.  I have no desire to
download, print, and read a bunch of .doc files by hand every week.
(This is a pain, and requires proprietary software I don't have; and I
find 12pt double-spaced Times New Roman much more difficult to read than
a LaTeX article anyway.)  So I am considering asking my students to
email their papers in plain text.  I would like to then apply some
automated processing on my end that would:

1) Download each student's paper into a file in my "teaching" directory.

2) Apply some *very* simple transformations, like adding #+TITLE before
their title, replacing Windows `smart quote' characters with ASCII ` and
', and generally making the files play nice with Org on a GNU box.  I
might also like to do things like run a word count at this stage to make
sure they are within the guidelines for the course.

3) Use Org's export abilities to compile each paper into a PDF (or
perhaps a single PDF for the whole week's submissions).

4) [Not necessary, but would be cool:] Automatically insert TODO items
into my agenda for each paper I have to read; automatically grade
students who don't turn in papers on time; etc.

Does anyone have any ideas about how I might go about this, and whether
it's worth the effort to automate it?  (I will have about 100 papers to
read this semester.)  

Thanks so much!

Best,
Richard

next             reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24  0:22 Richard Lawrence [this message]
2011-01-24 10:15 ` [OT] Importing plain text attachments into Org Jeff Horn
2011-01-24 18:37 ` Eric S Fraga
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-24  8:59 Rustom Mody

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