Re: [Orgmode] Re: orgcard.txt in Makefile

[Carsten Dominik]

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 have a copy, but it's way out of date.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 <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Christian Egli <address@hidden 
> > >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Nathan Neff <address@hidden> 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