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.
> 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
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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland