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Re: Pandoc

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

lucb1e wrote: post #46
flatline wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Can you diff two Word docs with Word? Afaik you can only hit the "track changes" button, which doesn't help if you got a new version of a document from someone else.

Hmmm. Wonder what "track changes" does if you Ctrl-A highlight the entire old doc, and paste the entire new doc over it.

(I imagine it registers it as one huge change, rather than tracking a zillion individual changes, but it might be interesting to try.)

Re: Pandoc

#52

Post by Terretta »

lucb1e wrote: post #46
flatline wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Can you diff two Word docs with Word? Afaik you can only hit the "track changes" button, which doesn't help if you got a new version of a document from someone else.

Tools, Track Changes, Compare Documents ...

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/compare-and-merge-t...

Had this forever, here's a visual on old version of Word:

http://www.techyard.net/how-to-compare-two-word-documents-an...

For more advanced, try legal blacklining:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/compare-document-di...

Or combine multiple sources of a similar document:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/combine-documents-f...

Re: Pandoc

#53

Post by eevilspock »

Pandoc's creator, John MacFarlane, is also the lead guy on CommonMark[1].

There are a small number of corner cases that need to be spec'd out before CommonMark can declare a v1.0 release[2]. If you have the skills for this kind of thing, please weigh in!

[1] https://commonmark.org

[2] https://talk.commonmark.org/t/issues-we-must-resolve-before-...

Re: Pandoc

#55

Post by thanatropism »

lucb1e wrote: post #46
flatline wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do Word’s native diff features not work for you?

Can you diff two Word docs with Word? Afaik you can only hit the "track changes" button, which doesn't help if you got a new version of a document from someone else.

Yes, and you can merge changes too.

Classic Word workflow: I make a document and send it to my boss; he makes some changes but suggests further research etc. and sends me his altered version, but I stupidly work on my own version. Making this right takes like four clicks.

Re: Pandoc

#56

Post by rllin »

frustratingly slow for word docs. antiword is better for those of you who wish to convert word docs en masse

Re: Pandoc

#57

Post by GlenTheMachine »

jagger27 wrote: post #32
GlenTheMachine wrote: post #15

As a guy attempting to transition from macOS to Linux: Pages to anything else, please.

A quick Google suggests that the most straightforward way is to run an Automator script to convert everything to PDF using Pages itself.

Yeah. But then you can't edit it. Converting it to opendoc or something would be more useful.

Re: Pandoc

#58

Post by vortico »

fastier wrote: post #50

Where is .djvu?

I believe the best you could do is extract the raw OCR'd text from the document (with some other tool). No formatting or text hierarchy is preserved in the OCR process, only the physical locations and size of the text on the page. From text, you can convert to Markdown or whatever and then manually edit to give the OCR text some structure.

Re: Pandoc

#60

Post by tomrod »

koolba wrote: post #11

My favorite pandoc hack is using it to convert word docs into markdown which can then be diffed similar to source code. Works great for legal redlining.

> legal redlining

Is this underlining, and not redlining as defined in financial services? (redlining: differential pricing based on demographic makeup of a zip code or neighborhood)

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