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 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 > > >>> > > >>> 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-discus...-/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 > . > > > > -- > > 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/yh480kbkwmtgvg.fsf%40johnmacfarlane.net > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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