Re: Writing custom filter in python to remove non-breaking spaces

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

Probably easier just to preprocess:

sed e 's/ / /g' input.html | pandoc -f html -t latex

+++ Karim Mohammadi [Aug 02 17 02:05 ]:
>   Hi. I want to convert html file file1.html to file1.tex. The html file
>   contains   .
>   How can i write an python script as a filter to remove non-breaking
>   space (&nbsp)?
>   This is my code:
>       #!/usr/bin/env python
>
>       """
>       Pandoc filter to removing   string from the text
>       """
>
>       from pandocfilters import toJSONFilter, Para
>
>       def debug(content):
>       file = open('debug.txt', 'w')
>       for item in content:
>       file.write("%s\n" % item)
>
>       def nbsp(key, value, format, meta):
>       uniString = unicode(value, "UTF-8")
>       uniString = value.replace(" ", " ")
>
>       return uniString
>
>       if __name__ == "__main__":
>       toJSONFilter(nbsp)
>    but calling command:
>   pandoc file1.html --filter ./nbsp.py -o file1.tex
>   give me some errors.
>
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