Re: RTF to Markdown questions

[Kris Wilk <kris-AwXHIjbJCMCw5LPnMra/2Q@public.gmane.org>]

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Follow-up question: I just spotted another markup that has been preserved 
that I don't recognize (and don't want...only bold/italics). Here's a 
snippet of converted RTF to markdown:

...radially outwards. [Eyes]{#_Hlk64921583} black, set in a pale...

I'm guessing that's some kind of RTF attribute/tag? I presume it can be 
stripped as easily as the underlines but I have no idea what it is in the 
first place. I suspect the answer is found somewhere in

https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html

but I'm not sure where to look.

Kris

On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2:38:07 PM UTC-4 Kris Wilk wrote:

> Thanks, the script to strip the underlines is exactly what I needed. As 
> for the spaces in the bolds/italics, I'll add an issue for that. Obviously, 
> this is not pandoc's fault but if you have a workaround that can be ported 
> to the RTF reader at some point, that would be super.
>
> In the meantime, I guess I'll investigate doing the job myself in Lua. 
> Even if it takes me a couple of days to figure out it'll be faster than 
> processing every file manually!
>
> Kris
>
> On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 2:28:20 PM UTC-4 John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>>
>> The issue with bold is probably because the RTF file includes
>> some spaces inside the boldface emphasis. That is depressingly
>> common in word processing documents, and we have code in the docx
>> reader, if I recall, that handles it by converting
>>
>> <b>helloSPACE</b>
>> to
>> <b>hello</b>SPACE
>>
>> We could port this over to the RTF reader, I think -- can you
>> put up an issue on the tracker so we don't forget?
>>
>> The other issue can be handled using a simple Lua filter.
>> Save it as ununderline.lua and use -L ununderline.lua on
>> the command line:
>>
>> function Underline(el)
>> return el.content
>> end
>>
>> You could probably handle the spacing issue with a more complex
>> Lua filter, as well.
>>
>> Kris Wilk <kr...-AwXHIjbJCMCw5LPnMra/2Q@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>
>> > Sorry if anyone gets this twice, had to correct my formatting...
>> >
>> > I'm trying to use pandoc (for the first time) to convert some RTF files 
>> to 
>> > markdown. My goal is to extract the text with ***bold*** and 
>> **italics** 
>> > preserved and no other formatting.
>> >
>> > Simply converting with "pandoc in.rtf -o out.md" produces a markdown 
>> file 
>> > that's not quite what I need. For instance, here's a line from the 
>> output:
>> >
>> > **[Scientific Name]{.underline}: ***Aplysia parvula *Morch, 1863
>> >
>> > FIRST and foremost, pandoc tries to preserve the underlined text, which 
>> I 
>> > don't want. Can this be disabled? I've tried the "bracketed_spans" and "
>> > native_spans" extensions but this still processes the underlines as:
>> >
>> > **<u>Scientific Name</u>: ***Aplysia parvula *Morch, 1863
>> >
>> > SECOND, at least when I view this in VSCode's markdown preview, the 
>> bold 
>> > and emphasis are not presented correctly, I guess because they touch 
>> each 
>> > other or have spaces (or both?)? It displays correctly if it's:
>> >
>> > **Scientific Name:** *Aplysia parvula* Morch, 1863
>> >
>> > I realize that the text in the RTF might have the bold/italic tagged 
>> > weirdly but is there a way to deal with this or am I just stuck? I have 
>> > about 500 such files to process, so I'm looking for automated methods.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
>> >
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