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


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> Christian Egli
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