Pandoc and Org-mode: list indention

Pandoc and Org-mode: list indention

[Devin Prater]

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Hi all. I am not a programmer, but have found Org-mode useful for editing course lessons.
I, blind myself, teach other blind people how to use technology and software, along with my supervisor and quite a few others. We have many courses on the use of Microsoft Office, Gmail, Internet basics, and so on. These courses are handled by Moodle, which accepts HTML and Markdown formatted text. Why it doesn’t use Org-mode, which is superior to Markdown in every way, is beyond me.
So, these course lessons are awfully malformed HTML. Empty <p> tags, misused &nbsp; things litter these files, and “middle dot” characters are used instead of <li> elements.
I’ve taken it upon myself to clean all this up, and Org-mode does it all. The only problem is, when I convert from HTML to Org-mode using Pandoc, just doing:
Pandoc -I lesson1.html -o lesson1.org <http://lesson1.org/>
The lists are not made into indented ones, just a paragraph, which I manually have to indent, marking the lines below the list marker line, and doing C-x C-I, then indenting 3 or four spaces, then filling the paragraph just to make sure.
Is there anything I can do to make this less tedious?
Other than all that, Org-mode does amazingly for everything I’ve used it for, so thanks so much for all who, knowing much more than I do about code, work on Org-mode, and Emacs in general.

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Re: Pandoc and Org-mode: list indention

[Jean Louis]

* Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> [2019-08-19 19:34]:
> I, blind myself, teach other blind people how to use technology and
> software, along with my supervisor and quite a few others. We have
> many courses on the use of Microsoft Office, Gmail, Internet basics,
> and so on. These courses are handled by Moodle, which accepts HTML
> and Markdown formatted text. Why it doesn’t use Org-mode, which is
> superior to Markdown in every way, is beyond me.

Thank you, I have learned about Moodle as resource for teaching.

> I’ve taken it upon myself to clean all this up, and Org-mode does it
> all. The only problem is, when I convert from HTML to Org-mode using
> Pandoc, just doing:

> Pandoc -I lesson1.html -o lesson1.org <http://lesson1.org/>

> The lists are not made into indented ones, just a paragraph, which I
> manually have to indent, marking the lines below the list marker
> line, and doing C-x C-I, then indenting 3 or four spaces, then
> filling the paragraph just to make sure.

> Is there anything I can do to make this less tedious?

Please send the file lesson1.html for review, and if I find right
workflow for you, I will tell you how I have done that.

Regarding moodle, I would make lessons in Emacs, and people would
accessing them from Emacs to the central database and answering it
that way. But that is my opinion, browsers are by opinion of other
people more practical.

Jean

Re: [O] Pandoc and Org-mode: list indention

[Jean Louis]

* Devin Prater <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> [2019-08-19 20:50]:
> Attached is lesson 5, the one I’m currently working on. I’ve given
> the original HTML.

I understand the problem.

What I suggest is using the elinks browser and dumping it out as plain
text with:

elinks --dump lesson5.html

There are some character dumped out, and such could be all removed
with one sed script.

I think that such text file could be easier converted to Org mode,
than using pandoc to convert it to Org mode, it becomes very ugly.

Jean

Re: Pandoc and Org-mode: list indention

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Aug 19 2019, Devin Prater wrote:
> I’ve taken it upon myself to clean all this up, and Org-mode 
> does it all. The only problem is, when I convert from HTML to 
> Org-mode using Pandoc, just doing:
> Pandoc -I lesson1.html -o lesson1.org <http://lesson1.org/>
> The lists are not made into indented ones, just a paragraph, 
> which I manually have to indent,

If you're using Pandoc to convert html to org, then you should 
probably ask on the Pandoc mailing list:

https://pandoc.org/help.html

HTH

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments