[texhax] latex2rtf?

[Chris Yocum]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:24:04AM -0400, William F Hammond wrote:
> Susan Dittmar <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Quoting Chris Yocum (cyocum at gmail.com):
> >> I ran pandoc on haskell cabal compiled version and what you need to do is put in this:
> >> 
> >> pandoc --standalone --to=html --from=latex /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
> >> 
> >> Note the --standalone option.  This will wrap it in a full html file.
> >> 
> >> I hope this helps.
> >
> > I guess that's not the whole story.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> >> On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 06:28:28PM -0400, William F Hammond wrote:
> >> >   pandoc: <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument
> >> >   (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
> >
> > This sounds to me as if there's a problem with text encoding. Looks like
> > pandoc expects utf8, but the input probably is in some other encoding.
> >
> 
> "sample2e.tex" is an ascii file.
> 
> I think the following distills the issue:
> 
>   : echo "He said, ``No'', and then he left." | pandoc --from=latex --to=html
> 
>     STDOUT:
>     <p
>     >He said, No
> 
>     STDERR:
>     pandoc: <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument
>     (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
> 
> It seems that pandoc is tripping on the LaTeX markup for
> double quotes.  It also seems to trip on forced linebreaks
> indicated by "\\".
> 
> My guess, without looking at any code, is that pandoc
> supports only a very rudimentary subset of LaTeX markup
> for translation to html.
> 

Hi Guys,

This was not my experience at all.  I ran that and resolves fine on my
machine (Ubuntu 12.04).  I am running pandoc 1.9.4.2 which I complied
with cabal so I am not using the Ubuntu package. Also, I have run it
successfully on much more complex documents with success in the past.

Unfortunately, this is a "works on my machine" moment :(

Chris
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