* Pandoc adding backslashes and grave accents when converting to md
@ 2022-07-20 5:03 PhilMac
0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: PhilMac @ 2022-07-20 5:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pandoc-discuss
[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2075 bytes --]
I'm getting backslashes and grave accents in my files when converting to md
from rtf. (These are files I previously exported from Apple's Pages app to
RTF.) The backslashes come at the ends of lines and also before multiple
periods (such as an ellipsis), and the grave accents surround characters
including smart quotes and em-dashes and also appear at the start of most
(but not all) lines in the document. The command I'm using to go from rtf
to md is:
for f in *.rtf; do pandoc --wrap=none "$f" -s -o "${f%.rtf}.md"; done
When I export the same files from Pages to docx and then convert to md, I
don't get the grave accents, but I do get some backslashes at the ends of
lines. I also get *[“]{dir="rtl"}* where there's a left double quotation
mark and *[’]{dir="rtl"}* where there's a smart apostrophe (i.e. a right
single quotation mark). This code is something in HTML
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/dir>
to do with scripts such as Arabic that are read right-to-left—I'm clueless
as to what that has to do my documents, which use only English and were
never in HTML. The command I'm using to go from docx to md is:
for f in *.docx; do pandoc --wrap=none -t markdown-smart "$f" -s -o
"${f%.docx}.md"; done
(I have to use *-t markdown-smart*, or the smart quotes aren't preserved.
But I have a similar issue if I leave it out: I get ["]{dir="rtl"} and
*[']{dir="rtl"}**.)*
Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be going on? Clearly there are
issues with these files—though not ones that are apparent in Pages—but I
have no idea what the issues are.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/0e8fb0aa-d500-4152-ab39-a4314ab5d27dn%40googlegroups.com.
[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 3037 bytes --]
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
only message in thread, other threads:[~2022-07-20 5:03 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2022-07-20 5:03 Pandoc adding backslashes and grave accents when converting to md PhilMac
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).