Re: Sugesstions for dealing with malformed LaTeX documents automatically?

[Grady D <gsmail4231-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I am sorry to hear that. Looking forward to the updates, though.

@Vaclav I am actually only interested in the documents' text, and I can do 
without the math. I have been using a filter to remove math expressions 
from the documents, but that only works if I can get the documents 
processed first. 

On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 6:49:40 AM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> 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]gsmai...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> 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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