Fwd: Re: orgcard.txt in Makefile

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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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have a copy, but it's way out of date.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.

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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