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 >> >> helloSPACE >> to >> helloSPACE >> >> 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 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: >> > >> > **Scientific Name: ***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! >> > >> > -- >> > 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-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/aecd40a2-09db-4e1b-96ad-752973375e0cn%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > -- 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/dec1524b-c96f-4090-be4c-6a2509879d59n%40googlegroups.com.