Postgres is an open-source project and it has DocBook as default format for its documentation. At a first glance it looks like a tree of *.sgml files in the doc directory inside a repository.
There are several pre-defined convertion output formats, but unfortunately Emacs' native one is ignored.
Does it possible to get Postgres documentation as a postgres.info.gz file?
That's basically nothing more than a text conversion problem. I believe the right solution here would be to write an XSL that converts the XML in your SGML files to TeXinfo source code, but the next best thing:
pandoc is a parser for different textual document file formats. It has a reader for Docbook and a writer for texinfo. That should get you started.
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I have been scouring the web for hours now and I haven't found a complete answer. I am wanting to convert my .org file to .docx (and docx. to .org) while maintaining the sections and tables. I have found and tried using pandoc through powershell as a tool to do this but I believe I am not doing any thing.
Here is the command I type into pandec:
pandoc report7a.org -s -o report7.docx
Shows the error:
pandoc.exe: Cannot decode byte '\xfe': Data.Text.Internal.Encoding.decodeUtf8: Invalid UTF-8 stream
I have little experience with doing stuff like this.
Here is an image of the .org file I want to convert
I think that your editor put the byte order mark (BOM) into begin of the file. Check this post on how to do it with Emacs.
When I use Pandoc to read a docx file, it ignores textboxes.They do not seem to be copied to the intermediary format.
How can I make pandoc read the textbox into the intermediary format, so that I can write a filter to include it in the output?
I'm the maintainer of the docx reader in pandoc. I don't think it currently deals with text boxes -- and I'm not sure there's an elegant way to represent them in pandoc's intermediate format. But if you post an issue on pandoc's github issue tracker, along with a sample docx file, I'll take a look and see if it's possible to add it to the reader.
I am trying to put the Microsoft Word document in emacs using org-mode. I have copied the Word Document and pasted in emacs. I like to achieve the headings like 7.1.2.4 in org-mode format.
and then link the TOC to appropriate headings. How I can do that? Any suggestions? Any programming language like Perl has done it?
Thanks.
There is ODT2ORG (https://bitbucket.org/josemaria.alkala/odt2org/wiki/Home) which lets you import odt files in org-mode.
Use Openoffice/Libreoffice to produce an .odt from your .doc.
Use odt2org to get an .org.
About the headings: I am not entirely sure I understand you.
there is org-toc.el included in org-mode that provides a seperate buffer with a TOC of your current document (like in Reftex). All the entries there are already links to the individual headings. Also, an exported document will have a TOC included by default without your intervention.
Orgmode does not support automatically numbered headings (yet). However, if you want to export your document to html, docbook, latex, or pdf, your headings will appear numbered and nested (you can tweak the settings quite a lot).
I doubt that you will get your intended result purely automatically but it should work 70% automatically, especially if you have latex installed and simply want to have a good-looking pdf in the end. Convert doc to odt, convert odt to org, open and type "C-c C-e d".
Another option: Save as an HTML file, then use Pandoc to convert the HTML to an .org file.
I've converted loads of Word documents into Org files. It takes minutes to do it by hand.
If you want cross-references, use internal links (4.2 in the current manual).
The * and ** style headings are always likely to be there in Org. Think of the use case where exports are compiled from #+INCLUDEd files, or you have done a selective export using tags. Any kind of single sourcing technology isn't going to display the numbering.
There is a ruby gem which converts doc to md. With pandoc you can convert to org.
https://github.com/benbalter/word-to-markdown
I need some help with conversion of DocBook files to Microsoft Word files.
Do I need an XSL file for the transformation?
Yes, you do need an XSL file. You can get XSL files for DocBook from the free DocBook XML distribution. Then, you run a free XSLT transformer such as Saxon. If you run Saxon from a command line, you give it the name of your DocBook file, and the name of one of the stylesheets, and it will transform your file according to the rules in the stylesheet.
What you need to do to transform to Word, is to pick the right stylesheet.
From DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, here are three possibilities:
Convert to XSL-FO and then use the XMLmind to export to Word. See the XMLmind website for more information.
Use a limited set of tags and then use one of DocBook XML's included stylesheets to output to WordML.
Try to use Jfor to output to RTF, although Jfor no longer appears to be maintained.
And I have one of my own:
As above, use one of DocBook XML's included stylesheets to publish to XSL-FO, then run Apache FOP to convert from XSL-FO to RTF. You will lose the structural information, but you will keep a certain amount of the formatting.
I recently implemented same feature for our users. They use Oxygen XML editor that allows for easy transformations via XSL. I was going to do OOXML but settled on WordML. As a starting point I used roundtrip XSL, but I had to rewrite lots of templates because of existing bugs or just missing functionality. In addition, I did other customization to serve a purpose or for our XML file only.
I would not mind contributing back to the project, but don't really know how to get about it.
I know this is an 11 years old question. But now, in 2022 you can use pandoc to convert DocBook to MS Word (docx).
pandoc --from docbook --to docx --output filename.docx filename.docbook
I am using XQuery to transform DocBook into various formats using XQuery typeswitch library. XQuery uses indexes so I can transform many documents very quickly.
Sphinx supports a few output formats:
Multiple HTML files (with html or dirhtml)
Latex which is useful for creating .pdf or .ps
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How can I obtain output in a Microsoft Word file instead?
With another doc generator I managed to generate a single html output file and then convert it to Microsoft Word format using the Word application.
Unfortunately I don't know a way to generate either Word or the HTML single-page format.
The solution I use is singlehtml builder like andho mentioned in the comment, then convert the html to docx using pandoc.
The following sample assumes the generated html would be located at _build/singlehtml/index.html
make singlehtml
cd _build/singlehtml/
pandoc -o index.docx index.html
There is a Sphinx extension for generating docx format (which I haven't tested) and a newer one (which I also haven't tested, but looks like it is more actively maintained)
To convert files in restructured text to MSdoc, I use rst2odt and next unoconv. Look next script:
#!/bin/sh
rst2odt $1 $1.odt
unoconv -f doc $1.odt
rm $1.odt
With rst2odt you can use your own stylesheet: unoconv comes with OpenOffice and also allows to apply an Open Office style (template) during the conversion. Simply edit a converted document, change styles, add headers and footers, save that as an ODF Text Document Template (OTT) and use this as part of the conversion, like:
unoconv -f doc -t template.ott $1.odt
to use that template for various conversions later on.
I realize this is an old question, but I found that LibreOffice supports the following way of doing conversion (assuming soffice.exe is in your path):
soffice.exe --invisible --convert-to doc myInputFile.odt
Some things I have read say to use the --headless option rather than --invisible. Both seem to work on Windows.
You can start with the rst2odt.py script and then do the above to convert to an MS Word document.
Here is a link with additional start up options for LibreOffice:
http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Starting_the_Software_With_Parameters
Here is a link with file types supported by OpenOffice which, I believe, LibreOffice should also support:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Framework/Article/Filter/FilterList_OOo_3_0
This answer is not a command line solution and it is not obviously the best, but it simply works for me and save my time. After generating html file 1, you can open the generated html with a browser and copy the entire page (Crtl + a and Ctrl+ c) and then run Microsoft Office(or use live version if you don't have Microsoft Windows, like me) and paste (Ctrl+v) to it.
The best option might be rst -> odt -> doc
Convert the sphinx documents into openoffice format.
Then convert open the odt with openoffice and saved to Word. But I don't know how to do this automatically.
This is a workaround using Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com), which includes a powerful converter. This worked well and most of the formatting are preserved:
Generate epub output in Sphinx make epub
Import epub output into Calibre and then convert epub to docx using inbuilt ebook converter.
Answer is too late for the original question, but people looking at the same problem may find this useful.
I don't now what Sphinx is, but you could create a rtf file or html file or something similar.
See the following blogpost for more information/approaches : OFFICE AUTOMATION
and from there : How to use ASP to generate a Rich Text Format (RTF) document to stream to Microsoft Word
This article describes how you can generate Rich Text Format (RTF) files with ASP script and then stream those files to Microsoft Word. This technique provides an alternative to server-side Automation of Microsoft Word for run-time document generation.
You don't use ASP script (who does :-) ), but for the idea.