diff options
Diffstat (limited to '_mutt/word2text.sh')
| -rwxr-xr-x | _mutt/word2text.sh | 67 |
1 files changed, 67 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/_mutt/word2text.sh b/_mutt/word2text.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..fe9682d --- /dev/null +++ b/_mutt/word2text.sh @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +# word2text - convert MS Word files to ASCII text +# +# SYNOPSIS +# word2text file +# +# DESCRIPTION +# Word2text uses wvHtml, w3m and some perl glue to convert the MS +# Word file specified by the argument to ASCII text on stdout. +# +# wvHtml converts MS Word files to HTML, but is intended to be +# used with a graphical browser such as Netscape Navigator, so it +# converts certain graphical elements to image files and +# corresponding <img> tags that the browser can render. Since +# this script uses a text based browser, it uses perl to eliminate +# these <img> tags. +# +# Compared to Quick View Plus (qvpview), the rendering of MS Word +# documents done by word2text is usually more accurate. Qvpview +# doesn't render unrecognized characters well, if at all. It also +# renders numbered lists as bullet lists. +# +# Compared to the plain text translations that some people include +# in their e-mail along with the original MS Word attachments, the +# rendering done by word2text is usually more readable: vertical +# spacing between paragraphs and list items is better and the +# adjustment of text within paragraphs is better. +# +# BUGS +# wvHtml occasionally dumps core. +# With the wv-0.7.4 release, some unnumbered lists are rendered as +# numbered. +# +# AUTHOR +# Gary A. Johnson +# <garyjohn@spk.agilent.com> +# +# REVISION HISTORY +# 2003-05-31 +# Between wv-0.5.42 and wv-0.7.4, wvHtml changed to insert +# a <p> tag between each <li> tag and the following text, +# causing the list-item text to start on the line +# following the list-item bullet or number. A perl +# expression was added to this script to fix the problem. +# 2003-02-19 +# The command-line arguments to wvHtml changed, requiring +# the output file name as well as the input file name. +# Therefore, '-' (stdout) was added to the command as the +# output file name. + +wvHtml "$1" - 2> /dev/null | +perl -0777 -p -e ' + s|<img .*?>||gs; # Delete img tags. + s|(<li.*?>)\s*<p>|\1|gs; # Remove <p> tags immediately + # following <li> tags. (This + # problem appeared somewhere + # between wv-0.5.42 and + # wv-0.7.4.) +' | +w3m -dump -T text/html | +perl -p -e ' + s/\n\s*\n/\n\n/gs; # Delete extra whitespace + # between lines. + s/\xa0/ /gs; # Change A0 spaces to ASCII + # spaces. +' |