On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Willem Rein Oudshoorn <woudshoo@xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thank you Willem,
> >
> > This looks very helpful.
> >
> > I am trying the code out in a scratch buffer and I am unable to gnerate
> org
> > syntax, e.g. with this test string:
> >
> > (h-2-o-insert-org-source-for-html  "<p><a
> > href=\"http://example.org/\">hello</a>
> > <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">world<br/> foo</span></p>" )
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?  Thanks,
>
> I added the <a href...> conversion, so that part should work now.
> However, I am not sure I want to do the <span style=...> thing.
> It seems that this requires some CSS parsing to do the right thing.
>
> Also in this example, the italics would span multiple lines, for which I
> think the only way to represent this in org is by enclosing each line in
> a pair of '/'.
>
> However, is there a specific use case where you need the conversion from
> the <span style='...'> to be precise?   (At the moment it will still
> output the content of the <span> but it will not be formatted.
>
> If there is a specific use case, I could maybe make it work for that.
>
> Personally, I use it to edit text fields in salesforce.
> For which I do not care too much if the round trip yields perfect
> results.
>
> Hi Wim,

I am trying to parse the output of citeproc-js, which does produce those
spans -- not veyr elegant, I must say, but that's what I'm working with.
I will try this again in about a day, when I am done with the hard part of
my week!  Thank you very much,
Matt


>
> Wim Oudshoorn
>
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