From: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WISH] Org Importers
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:17:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxpx9ubk.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aalxamvz.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Matt Lundin's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:00:32 -0400")
Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> 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
Matt,
I do have a need to convert latex to org every now and again (luckily
not too often) so it would definitely be nice to have this on Worg. My
own approach is to manually apply a number of regexp substitutions that
don't catch everything. Your approach sounds quite appealing!
--
Eric S Fraga
GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D
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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
2010-10-29 2:18 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-29 17:06 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 10:17 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
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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