Re: RTF to Markdown questions

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

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 <kris-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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