---On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:03:42 -0500, Bill Nalen said
> The internal information that our company plucks contains many ms word
> documents which are very valuable to have on the Palm. However the
> current Python parser doesn't handle them. I saw David's message back in
> October that involved wv and Perl to do the conversion. I'm wondering if
> it will be worth my time to try to incorporate the msword conversion into
> the Python parser without Perl but using wv. I'm thinking I can just add
> a section in the handler for application/ms-word types (with .doc
> extensions I think) and call out to the converter.
My company does too. I use a section in .pluckerrc and a couple of
scripts (run by before_command and after_command) to do the translation
with wv and the cleanup.
Then all I have to do is 'plucker-build -s workdocs' and sync the
resulting .pdb to my palm.
> If I'm successful, would this be a valuable addition to the core or should
> I maintain it just as a patch. I guess the same could go for other
> document types like pdfs.
Maybe we should just provide the scripting.
--re: Parsing MS Word documents
Chris
Christopher R. Hawks Software Engineer
Syscon Plantstar a Division of Syscon International
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How do I type "for i in *.dvi do xdvi $i done" in a GUI?
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