Re: Re: orgcard.txt in Makefile

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I intended this for the list, for what it's worth, so I am  
> forwarding it now.
>
> Alan
>
> Hello:
>
> I tried at some point to reduce the orgcard to an org-mode file.  I
> have a copy, but it's way out of date.  Org is changing too fast for
> me to keep up.  It's perhaps worthwhile, though, and maybe useful.  It
> is to me. It's attached.


Actually, the orgcard is changing only very slowly.

- Carsten

>
> I started by running, I think, untex on orgcard.tex, then formatting
> the output by hand.
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to use the orgcard.txt file that's included in the org- 
>>>> mode
>>>> source.
>>>> I like being able to search through a text file for relevant  
>>>> keyboard
>>>> shortcuts.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't seem like it's been updated since org version 6.10.
>>>>
>>>> I tried running make doc, but I don't think that orgcard.txt is
>>>> generated in
>>>> the "make doc" task.
>>>
>>> AFAIK It is not.
>>>
>>>> Is orgcard.txt generated from orgcard.tex?  If so, can anyone  
>>>> tell me
>>>> how
>>>> to do it?
>>>
>>> I presume that it is converted by hand. I tried a few automated  
>>> tools
>>> (pdftotext, latex2html + w3m) but they all give very bad results.
>>>
>>> I would recommend to either
>>>
>>>  a) compare the existing orgcard.pdf and orgcard.txt and update the
>>>     existing orgcard.txt accordingly or
>>>  b) cut'n'paste the text from a pdf viewer into emacs and do some  
>>> magic
>>>     with rectangles (as the text is in three columns) to achieve the
>>>     desired result.
>>>
>>> Then submit the newest orgcard.txt as a patch so you will not have  
>>> to
>>> keep it locally.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Christian
>>>
>>
>> Very cool.  I want to contribute back to org-mode, but I don't
>> want to manually modify orgcard.txt :-)
>>
>> I will write a script that can parse the orgcard.tex file and pull  
>> out the
>> goodies that we want in the orgcard.txt file.
>>
>> Regardless of whether that script is accepted into the org-mode  
>> base, I can
>> run the script when there's an update to orgcard.tex, then submit the
>> updated orgcard.txt.
>>
>> I should have a quick & dirty script (Perl) done by next week.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Nate
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christian Egli
>>> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
>>> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>>>
>>>
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- Carsten