From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [WISH] Org Importers
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:00:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aalxamvz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81d3quu2zm.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:07:49 +0530")
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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
>
> I have suggested or hinted elsewhere (in a babel thread) the need for
> importing in to Org from other formats.
FWIW, I have a home-brewed perl script that converts latex documents to
org-mode files. Loosely based on latex2doc[1], it uses a latex style
file (generated by the perl script) to markup the pdf output (e.g.
asterisks for section headings, etc.). The org-formatted pdf is then
converted to plain text with pdftotext.
It's a crude and by no means comprehensive hack designed to meet my own
peculiar needs. But I'd be happy to share it on Worg (with ample
disclaimers) if anyone is interested.
Best,
Matt
Footnotes:
[1] http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Latex/latex2doc.php
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-29 0:05 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
2010-10-28 11:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 0:00 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
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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