Re: Sugesstions for dealing with malformed LaTeX documents automatically?

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Note that things pandoc stumbles on are not necessary tex
errors.  They may reflect limitations in pandoc's ability to
understand tex.

I've made the tex reader fail when it gets confused, rather
than (e.g.) silently skipping things, partly so that it can
be improved more rapidly.

In pandoc 2.0 we'll have better warnings about places where
information is lost, and perhaps we could add options to
"plow ahead" when pandoc gets confused.

+++ Václav Haisman [Jan 06 17 11:17 ]:
>   On 6 January 2017 at 03:30, Grady D <[1]gsmail4231-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>   I am trying to convert many LaTeX documents using Pandoc. However, some
>   of the documents have syntax errors or are poorly formatted, and cause
>   Pandoc to crash. Is there anything I could use, through Pandoc or
>   otherwise, to make these documents usable/convertable? I intend to
>   convert them to plaintext preserving only the content, so I do not need
>   full blown syntax repair as much as I just need a way to eliminate
>   malformed statements. At the bottom of this post, I have attached some
>   of the errors I'm talking about.
>   Thanks for any suggestions you guys have.
>   Error examples: [2]https://hastebin.com/raw/womufuxoko
>
>   ​Well, you will have to fix the math sooner or later anyway, if you
>   want to make any sense out of it. Why not try and fix it before the
>   conversion?
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