From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WISH] Org Importers
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:03:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81d3quzh4y.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aalyzkqy.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:15:17 +0100")
Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Eric
>>
>>> However, what would be ideal would be if there were a tool which would
>>> take a Word document with /track changes/ and generate a patch file for
>>> a text version of that document... that could then provide some
>>> mechanism for getting changes back into an org document (modulo problems
>>> with line re-arrangements unfortunately). Just a pipe dream...
>>
>> If you allow me some liberty, the suggestion is in two parts
>>
>> 1. Word/Pdf/Latex->Org converter
>> 2. Change tracking within Org
>>
>> For most of us who write or work with copious amount of text, (1) could
>> really be useful. If it gains sufficient escape velocity it can land us
>> in a far off galaxy. (2) could be useful but a bit far-fetched at the
>> moment.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. change tracking in org is trivial (git,
> mercurial, etc); it's extracting Word change tracking information in a
> form usable by other tools that is not trivial...
My intention was really to bring attention to the need for importers and
how useful they could be. Looks like the thread is veering in another
direction ...
As for change tracking, I will have insightful things to say once I get
to look at the details of how OpenDocument manages the same.
Jambunathan K.
>
> eric
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 16:49 General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 17:13 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 17:46 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 18:12 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 22:40 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2010-10-27 14:15 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 18:42 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-26 20:45 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 19:48 ` Russell Adams
2010-10-26 20:47 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 22:46 ` Russell Adams
2010-10-27 3:31 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 11:24 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 14:57 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 15:02 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 18:41 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-28 7:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 8:37 ` [WISH] Org Importers Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 9:15 ` Scot Becker
2010-10-28 10:16 ` Peter Frings
2010-10-28 17:23 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 10:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 11:33 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2010-10-28 11:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 0:00 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 2:18 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-29 17:06 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 10:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-02 22:35 ` Bastien
2010-10-29 0:23 ` General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Matt Lundin
2010-10-30 11:18 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-30 11:53 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-30 11:45 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-11-01 0:30 ` Matt Lundin
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