Re: How to convert org file to such a plain text

[anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com>]

"Eddward DeVilla" <eddward@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know if you use perl at all.  My first guess is:
>
>     perl -pe's/^(\*+)(\s+.*)$/("\t"x length$1).$2/e' < TODO.org > TODO.txt
>
> Having tried it on a live file, I don't think the results are very
> pleasing  Replacing a single character '*' with a tab creates a
> formatting mess with any other text in the file.
>
> Edd
Yes, it's a bit mess, thank you anyway.

>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:39 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
>> anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 26, 2008, at 9:52 AM, anhnmncb wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Hugo Schmitt" <hugows@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What are the odds that Carsten has plans to export to a format
>>>>>> *you* just invented?
>>>>> Oh, my pda app projekt can import this format of file, but if all of
>>>>> you
>>>>> think it's no use, nervermind.
>>>>
>>>> Hey, why the huff?
>>>>
>>>> The point is, you have not given us any chance at all to
>>>> think it might be of any use!
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>> Sorry for delay, I can't reach the app website[1] right now, when it
>>> can, I will provide the relavent information.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.kylom.com/
>>
>> Sorry, I can't find more useful info, the app just says it can import
>> the txt file which has different level of indents. So I think replace
>> star(*) with <tab> is enough. Such like this:
>>
>> Org file              -->  txt file
>> --------------------       --------------------
>> |* level 1                 |level 1
>> |** level 2           -->  |<tab>level 2
>> |<tab>- item               |<tab>- item
>> |*** level 3               |<tab><tab>level 3
>> --------------------       --------------------
>>
>> I'm not a programmer, so if my request is stupid and easy to achieve by
>> any other way, please let me know.
>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:47 PM, anhnmncb <anhnmncb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We do not have an exporter that can do this right now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Carsten
>>>>>>   Will it come in furture?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:59 PM, anhnmncb wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   I want to export org to plan text, which pattern is:
>>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>>   |level 1
>>>>>>>   |<tab>level 2
>>>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>>>>>>>   |<tab><tab>level 3
>>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>>   instead of
>>>>>>>   --------------------
>>>>>>>   |* level 1
>>>>>>>   |** level 2
>>>>>>>   |<tab>- item
>>>>>>>   |*** level 3
>>>>>>>   --------------------
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>>>>>>>
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