From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: orgcard.txt in Makefile
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7222583A-8E86-452F-8F56-DC8D67B93278@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2q7bef1f891004141324g66fcf075h88eb104879f76ba2@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I intended this for the list, for what it's worth, so I am
> forwarding it now.
>
> Alan
>
> Hello:
>
> I tried at some point to reduce the orgcard to an org-mode file. I
> have a copy, but it's way out of date. Org is changing too fast for
> me to keep up. It's perhaps worthwhile, though, and maybe useful. It
> is to me. It's attached.
Actually, the orgcard is changing only very slowly.
- Carsten
>
> I started by running, I think, untex on orgcard.tex, then formatting
> the output by hand.
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'd like to use the orgcard.txt file that's included in the org-
>>>> mode
>>>> source.
>>>> I like being able to search through a text file for relevant
>>>> keyboard
>>>> shortcuts.
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't seem like it's been updated since org version 6.10.
>>>>
>>>> I tried running make doc, but I don't think that orgcard.txt is
>>>> generated in
>>>> the "make doc" task.
>>>
>>> AFAIK It is not.
>>>
>>>> Is orgcard.txt generated from orgcard.tex? If so, can anyone
>>>> tell me
>>>> how
>>>> to do it?
>>>
>>> I presume that it is converted by hand. I tried a few automated
>>> tools
>>> (pdftotext, latex2html + w3m) but they all give very bad results.
>>>
>>> I would recommend to either
>>>
>>> a) compare the existing orgcard.pdf and orgcard.txt and update the
>>> existing orgcard.txt accordingly or
>>> b) cut'n'paste the text from a pdf viewer into emacs and do some
>>> magic
>>> with rectangles (as the text is in three columns) to achieve the
>>> desired result.
>>>
>>> Then submit the newest orgcard.txt as a patch so you will not have
>>> to
>>> keep it locally.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Christian
>>>
>>
>> Very cool. I want to contribute back to org-mode, but I don't
>> want to manually modify orgcard.txt :-)
>>
>> I will write a script that can parse the orgcard.tex file and pull
>> out the
>> goodies that we want in the orgcard.txt file.
>>
>> Regardless of whether that script is accepted into the org-mode
>> base, I can
>> run the script when there's an update to orgcard.tex, then submit the
>> updated orgcard.txt.
>>
>> I should have a quick & dirty script (Perl) done by next week.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --Nate
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Christian Egli
>>> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
>>> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>>>
>>>
>>>
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- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 16:56 orgcard.txt in Makefile Nathan Neff
2010-04-13 6:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-13 7:33 ` Christian Egli
2010-04-14 16:05 ` Nathan Neff
[not found] ` <p2u7bef1f891004141322z52049ba7z9adce42db9e8b77f@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-14 20:24 ` Fwd: " Alan E. Davis
2010-04-15 11:08 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-04-27 13:32 ` Osamu OKANO
2010-04-29 13:54 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-07 14:20 ` Osamu OKANO
2010-05-07 14:52 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-07 15:43 ` Osamu OKANO
2010-05-12 12:52 ` Osamu OKANO
2010-05-12 14:23 ` Carsten Dominik
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