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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sylvian,

Any improvements for the latex template are welcome, don't use it actively
myself, so won't improve without feedback from users with more latex
experience.

I guess you also had seen that zim has markdown export format that should
be compatible with pandoc ? I would imagine running that one if you want to
use the pandoc build chain.

Regards,

Jaap




On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Sylvain Viart <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Do you know the amazing pandoc? A multi text format converter.
>
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
>
> But it doesn't support dokuwiki yet…
> Zim's manual said: "Most of this syntax is inspired by the dokuwiki syntax"
>
> I'm playing to auto build a PDF passing a filter with Latex's magic
> inside. (numbering lines!) :-D
>
> I first tested pandoc directly on the .txt.
>
> simple PDF export (does require heavy package install under xubuntu ~
> 350MB or more)
> sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended pandoc texlive-latex-extra
>
> $ sed '1,7 d' 01.chapter.txt | pandoc -S -o out.pdf
>
> Works great even with special characters « » − …
>
> The .tex export from zim in Article template doesn't compile with such
> char.
>
> zim --export --output=o.tex --format=latex --template=Article
> ~/Notebook/Novel ":Novel:01.chapter 1"
>
> My first tests used almost no zim formating. This is for novel writing.
>
> I tested my formater against zim documentation.
>
> This formater use a modified .tex output and a \usepackage{eledmac} (many
> more MB of deb packages required to make it work) which counts line number
> in the generated pdf!
>
> Really cool…
>
>
> the part of the code which adds the latex macro for numbering lines looks
> like:
>
>     # remove Zim's header, convert speaker part too
>     sed -e '1,4 d' "$source_page" -e '/^— / a\\n' \
>         | pandoc -s -o "${basepage}.tex"
>     # edit inplace -i
>     sed -i -e '/^\\usepackage{fixltx2e}/ a\\\usepackage{eledmac}' \
>         -e '/^\\begin{document}/
> a\\\begingroup\n\\beginnumbering\n\\autopar '\
>         -e '/^\\end{document}/ i\\\endnumbering\n\\endgroup' \
>         "${basepage}.tex"
>
>     latex "${basepage}.tex"
>     dvipdf "${basepage}.dvi"
>
>
> See this generated pdf for an example. As you can see the format is broken.
>
> 30 days link: http://dl.free.fr/fniKVY1ou
>
> So, I've a question. Which Latex converter should I use?
>
> Hacking the Zim's export template? or filter the txt file to some more
> pandoc friendly syntax?
>
> Regards,
> Sylvain.
>
>
>
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