Subject: Re: Human-readable text export filter
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (cuenca@celium.net)
Date: Tue Apr 24 2001 - 05:08:22 CDT
On 24 Apr 2001 10:22:34 +0100, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David Given wrote:
>
> > Enclosed is a patch that adds a new export filter to AbiWord 0.7.13.
> > This produces what I call Human Readable Text. This involves adding
> > simple markup for things like #bold#, *italics* and _underlined_ text
> > among others, along with some strategically placed newlines for
> > general readability.
>
> Excellent! Then I can hook it up via the perl bindings
> automagically to turn any Word documents I receive into
> text. (OK, wvWare would probably be better for this.)
If you want to do it with abi, you don't need the perl bindings to do
that. You can just do:
abiword filename.doc --to filename.txt
of course, once the patch reach the tree, etc.
Cheers,
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela cuenca@celium.net
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