Dear Orgsters, I'm hoping I can solicit a little advice about pulling email attachments into Org (via Gnus), since some of the folks on this list seem to have experience interacting with Gnus from Org. I realize that the meat of my question may be better asked on the Gnus list, but if anyone here has knowledge and/or a similar setup that you'd be willing to share, I would very much appreciate hearing about it.
The background: I am about to begin teaching a writing-intensive course. Students will email me their papers every week. I have no desire to download, print, and read a bunch of .doc files by hand every week. (This is a pain, and requires proprietary software I don't have; and I find 12pt double-spaced Times New Roman much more difficult to read than a LaTeX article anyway.) So I am considering asking my students to email their papers in plain text. I would like to then apply some automated processing on my end that would: 1) Download each student's paper into a file in my "teaching" directory. 2) Apply some *very* simple transformations, like adding #+TITLE before their title, replacing Windows `smart quote' characters with ASCII ` and ', and generally making the files play nice with Org on a GNU box. I might also like to do things like run a word count at this stage to make sure they are within the guidelines for the course. 3) Use Org's export abilities to compile each paper into a PDF (or perhaps a single PDF for the whole week's submissions). 4) [Not necessary, but would be cool:] Automatically insert TODO items into my agenda for each paper I have to read; automatically grade students who don't turn in papers on time; etc. Does anyone have any ideas about how I might go about this, and whether it's worth the effort to automate it? (I will have about 100 papers to read this semester.) Thanks so much! Best, Richard _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
