On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@upsilon.cc> wrote:
> Heya, > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 03:33:03AM -0400, Martin Blais wrote: > > here's a snapshot of all the documents exported to all the available > > formats: http://furius.ca/tmp/beancount/beancount-docs-exported.tar.gz > > Thanks for this, very useful. > > I've started looking into automatically converting to something that > Sphinx would like to produce good output. Question about your findings: > > > I took some notes on the conversion in the past: > > https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/22be0f233d079c14dc727d54378d21 > 164db04cdf/experiments/docs/convert/compare_download_formats.txt > > > > It seems like one may have to source from more than one export in order > to > > obtain all the necessary bits to make a nice conversion. > > Most difficult is that all the formats seem to lose the indentation of > the > > "code" (Beancount source) examples. > > (I think it should be possible to automatically reindent it with code.) > > Docx output seems indeed to be the most rich output option from Google > Docs. But AFAICT it does retain the needed spacing in Beancount code > snippets. Here's an example from the rounding precision proposal > document: > > <w:t xml:space="preserve">2014-05-06 * “Buy mutual fund”</w:t> > <w:br w:type="textWrapping"/> > <w:t xml:space="preserve"> Assets:Investments:RGXGX 4.278 RGAGX > {53.21 USD} </w:t> > <w:br w:type="textWrapping"/> > <w:t xml:space="preserve"> Assets:Investments:Cash -227.6324 > USD</w:t> > <w:br w:type="textWrapping"/> > <w:t xml:space="preserve"> Expenses:Commissions 9.95 > USD</w:t> > > which corresponds to: > > 2014-05-06 * “Buy mutual fund” > Assets:Investments:RGXGX 23.45 RGAGX {42.6439 USD} > Assets:Investments:Cash -1000 USD > > When reading docx *pandoc* does indeed strip those spaces, > unfortunately, so one can't simply rely on pandoc for a docx -> rst > conversation, but the information seems to be there in the docx. > > I'll give this path a try, but please let me know if you're aware that > I'm missing something here! This is a good observation, I hadn't noticed this myself. This is great. I think it should be possible to combine the output from pandoc and splice in the code examples extracted from a custom (Python) script. Thank you for this, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhN_KsJ%3DXJoAymJkYfY2AaakaC3H3yPzPTqW%3DaFd7%3D5pDw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
