Re: RTF to Markdown questions

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

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In this case, no, any such references/markup other than bold/italic are 
spurious and must be removed. The aim is to reduce the content to plain 
text with the simplest markup only, for ingestion into a database that will 
be used by a web app.

Kris

On Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 4:56:22 PM UTC-4 Bastien Dumont wrote:

> Don't you have any cross-reference to it in your RTF file? If you have, 
> you may want to keep it.
>
> Le Wednesday 27 April 2022 à 01:23:47PM, John MacFarlane a écrit :
> > 
> > In pandoc's AST, that is a Span with an id.
> > So your filter will need to match on Span instead of underline,
> > but otherwise same as the last one.
> > 
> > Kris Wilk <kr...-AwXHIjbJCMCw5LPnMra/2Q@public.gmane.org> writes:
> > 
> > > 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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