Normalizing spaces in italics

Normalizing spaces in italics

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I am a bit sloppy typing italics in my wordprocessor, and generally only 
turn off the italics after I hit the space at the end of the word, so I end 
up with markdown output that looks like this (when I convert from rtf to 
md):

Strictly speaking the qualities that are imposed by the *logos *of a 
certain thing are the *activities *of the *logos*

This looks ugly when I open it up in Emacs etc. I can fix these with regex 
replace in Emacs; but I thought pandoc had normalization by default now, 
which is supposed to fix these kinds of stylistic errors? I tried passing 
the markdown again through pandoc, to generate markdown, but it made no 
difference.

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Re: Normalizing spaces in italics

[BPJ]

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I use this Lua filter to clean up when I convert from DOCX.

``````lua
local function handler (elem)
  -- Get the length of the content
  len = #elem.content
  -- Check that the content isn't empty
  if 0 < len then
    -- Is the last child a space?
    if 'Space' == elem.content[len].tag then
      -- Remove the space (last child)
      elem.content:remove()
      -- Return a space *after* the element
      return { elem, pandoc.Space() }
    end
  end
  return nil
end

return {
  {
    Emph      = handler,
    Strong    = handler,
    Strikeout = handler,
    SmallCaps = handler,
    Underline = handler,
    Span      = handler,
    Link      = handler,
  }
}
``````

Den fre 1 juli 2022 18:37r.d.go...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <r.d.goulding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:

> I am a bit sloppy typing italics in my wordprocessor, and generally only
> turn off the italics after I hit the space at the end of the word, so I end
> up with markdown output that looks like this (when I convert from rtf to
> md):
>
> Strictly speaking the qualities that are imposed by the *logos *of a
> certain thing are the *activities *of the *logos*
>
> This looks ugly when I open it up in Emacs etc. I can fix these with regex
> replace in Emacs; but I thought pandoc had normalization by default now,
> which is supposed to fix these kinds of stylistic errors? I tried passing
> the markdown again through pandoc, to generate markdown, but it made no
> difference.
>
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Re: Normalizing spaces in italics

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It works perfectly! Thanks, saved me a lot of manual fixing of files

On Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 4:50:05 AM UTC-4 BP wrote:

> I use this Lua filter to clean up when I convert from DOCX.
>
> ``````lua
> local function handler (elem)
>   -- Get the length of the content
>   len = #elem.content
>   -- Check that the content isn't empty
>   if 0 < len then
>     -- Is the last child a space?
>     if 'Space' == elem.content[len].tag then
>       -- Remove the space (last child)
>       elem.content:remove()
>       -- Return a space *after* the element
>       return { elem, pandoc.Space() }
>     end
>   end
>   return nil
> end
>
> return {
>   {
>     Emph      = handler,
>     Strong    = handler,
>     Strikeout = handler,
>     SmallCaps = handler,
>     Underline = handler,
>     Span      = handler,
>     Link      = handler,
>   }
> }
> ``````
>
> Den fre 1 juli 2022 18:37r.d.go...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <r.d.go...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>
>> I am a bit sloppy typing italics in my wordprocessor, and generally only 
>> turn off the italics after I hit the space at the end of the word, so I end 
>> up with markdown output that looks like this (when I convert from rtf to 
>> md):
>>
>> Strictly speaking the qualities that are imposed by the *logos *of a 
>> certain thing are the *activities *of the *logos*
>>
>> This looks ugly when I open it up in Emacs etc. I can fix these with 
>> regex replace in Emacs; but I thought pandoc had normalization by default 
>> now, which is supposed to fix these kinds of stylistic errors? I tried 
>> passing the markdown again through pandoc, to generate markdown, but it 
>> made no difference.
>>
>> -- 
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>> To view this discussion on the web visit 
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>> .
>>
>

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Re: Normalizing spaces in italics

[John MacFarlane]

Might be good to build this into the docx reader.

BPJ <melroch-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I use this Lua filter to clean up when I convert from DOCX.
>
> ``````lua
> local function handler (elem)
>   -- Get the length of the content
>   len = #elem.content
>   -- Check that the content isn't empty
>   if 0 < len then
>     -- Is the last child a space?
>     if 'Space' == elem.content[len].tag then
>       -- Remove the space (last child)
>       elem.content:remove()
>       -- Return a space *after* the element
>       return { elem, pandoc.Space() }
>     end
>   end
>   return nil
> end
>
> return {
>   {
>     Emph      = handler,
>     Strong    = handler,
>     Strikeout = handler,
>     SmallCaps = handler,
>     Underline = handler,
>     Span      = handler,
>     Link      = handler,
>   }
> }
> ``````
>
> Den fre 1 juli 2022 18:37r.d.go...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <r.d.goulding-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> skrev:
>
>> I am a bit sloppy typing italics in my wordprocessor, and generally only
>> turn off the italics after I hit the space at the end of the word, so I end
>> up with markdown output that looks like this (when I convert from rtf to
>> md):
>>
>> Strictly speaking the qualities that are imposed by the *logos *of a
>> certain thing are the *activities *of the *logos*
>>
>> This looks ugly when I open it up in Emacs etc. I can fix these with regex
>> replace in Emacs; but I thought pandoc had normalization by default now,
>> which is supposed to fix these kinds of stylistic errors? I tried passing
>> the markdown again through pandoc, to generate markdown, but it made no
>> difference.
>>
>> --
>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
>> "pandoc-discuss" group.
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>> To view this discussion on the web visit
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>> .
>>
>
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