Muse is a special mode in emacs that can be used as a wiki. It has multiple output formats like static HTML pages, LaTeX, PDF etc.
But sometimes I need to output something that less tech-savvy people can edit/correct and send back to me.
I think either RTF, ODT or DOC would do the trick.
My problem is that muse only supports HTML, LaTeX, TexInfo and XML out of the box.
Implementing an own output format is currently not an option as I cannot program in elisp and learning it would take too much time.
I searched for a way to convert to or use markdown as pandoc can convert to RTF. But I found only the following discussion that does not solve my problem.
My last resort would be to convert to HTML and then to RTF, ODT or DOC but AFAIK the results are far from great.
It would appreciate a solution that can be automated (with custom scripts).
I think, that importing of HTML into MS Word (or compatible processor) should work. As I remember, OpenOffice had some scripting support, so you can launch it, and perform some commands inside it.
Another way - writing RTF export backend, it shouldn't be too complicated, although it could be too much details to be taken into account. If you'll go this way, please write to muse mailing list, and I'll try to help you
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I've recently installed the Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12298) and I'm able to save MediaWiki files just fine but I can't open them (they are opened as plain text).
How can I force MS Word to make the correct association for MediaWiki files?
You can't. "Interpreting" the MediaWiki markup, i.e. wikitext, is called parsing. Writing a MediaWiki parser is a pain and there is no single parser which fully works yet, other than MediaWiki itself. LibreOffice's wiki-publisher plugin and those which copied it are able to produce good wikitext from their well-formed data format, but making this bidirectional is another matter.
Parsoid is almost perfect now and produces standard HTML, but it's a rather heavy application, you can't expect it to be embedded in Word. Maybe someone can write a LibreOffice plugin for Parsoid, though! Would be scary, but who knows.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers for more information. Many tried and got hurt. :)
Is there a really awesome way to organize results in MATLAB and create a set of HTML pages of the data?
I want to take a bunch of different runs and visualize the data and results in a way that is easy for people to flip through but I was hoping to do better than starting from scratch and writing raw HTML/XML code to disk.
You might like to take a look at the publish-to-HTML functionality in MATLAB. It's extremely easy: you just add some mark-up to the comments in a MATLAB script, click the publish button or use the publish command, and you get a nice HTML (or Word, PowerPoint or LaTeX) file containing the code and output of the script, with your marked up comments converted to nice paragraphs of explanatory text. Here are some links to the documentation:
Publishing MATLAB Code
Publishing Code from the Editor (video)
and to a blog article containing three enhancements to publishing, which display data as HTML tables in your published HTML:
HTML tables
Hope that helps!
I work for a publisher and am trying to extract content from our fully laid out PDFs. I've tried pdftohtml, pdftotext, pdfminer, and other Python-based approaches to getting the content, as well as saving to Word, HTML, XML, etc. from the original Acrobat files.
I don't need just the text, I also need the text formatting. That's because, for example, I need all the blue text in the document.
When I save to HTML, Word, etc. from Acrobat, the resulting files contain screenshots of the pages, not the laid out text. When I extract text using different Python modules I get the text but lose the text formatting.
The only solution I've found is to manually copy and paste from the PDF into a word doc, then saving as HTML. I'm hoping to automate this.
Why does copying from Acrobat into Word achieve what I can't do by other means? Has anybody come across this problem before?
Maybe you can consider another method. The software (https://pdfapi.codeplex.com/) can convert pdf files to html directly via MVS. If you are able to use the MVS, i think the software i mentioned above is useful for you to convert the text in pdf files to html that can keep the format perfectly. Of course, it's just a referral, you can have a try.
I have to store some documents in the docx format, but can't stand using msword: I would like to edit some kind of plain text markup, anything except stuff based on XML (I don't like that either) and convert from/to that to/from docx.
Are there any options for this?
EDIT: since people think this is not programming related, I'll extend my question. What libraries do you suggest for writing a complete tex-docx/docx-tex converter?
If you're talking .net, I'd check out the OpenXML toolkit first. There are lots of "libraries" on the internet to do this, but they all seem to just be thin wrappers around the OpenXML stuff.
You might also check out
http://openxmldeveloper.org/
Aspose.Words for .NET allows you to create DOCX files from scratch using text or other content and then convert DOCX files to text etc. It doesn't require MS Office to be installed on the system. And the component is a simple .NET assembly with an easy to learn and implement API. Please try and see if it helps in your scenario.
Disclosure: I work as developer evangelist at Aspose.
You can try the DocxEditorKit http://java-sl.com/docx_editor_kit.html
Set the editor kit to JEditorPane, add styled text and store the document in docx format.
I'm writing a plain text document with numbered sections or chapters and am wondering if emacs can help with numbering and re-numbering sections. And of course would be great if it could then generate a table of contents as well.
I have had a search on google and looked through the emacs wiki but did not come up with anything other than for latex stuff and possibly muse mode, but I would like to keep this as a plain text README style document.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
I'm pretty sure that org-mode (which is included by default in emacs these days) also provides for such things. It enables fairly sophisticated structured documents in plain text, and can export as text, HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, and a few other formats. The documentation mentions that DocBook export in particular opens up a variety of other conversion options using existing DocBook tools.
How about using reStructuredText:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/emacs.html