> Sure, if all you want is to convert one document. My company has a home
> page with internal news, etc. with links to relevant Word documents. It
> would be nice to have the home page with news and the Word documents
> linked to in one pdb.
Then you can turn it into a script which takes a directory as an
argument. It's roughly 4 lines of code difference between handling one file
as an arugment, and a directory of files, or turning it into a cron job
which can do it hourly/nightly/whatever. Not a silicon problem.
> I was referring to the doc2pl script on the links page which says it won't
> work on win32 systems. Updating this script as you describe to support
> win32 would be cool, but it doesn't allow a Word doc file to be a plucker
> channel, or parsed when linked to.
It says it "currently will not work", that's not the same thing as
"won't work". Since I wrote it, I can probably update it, but I'll gladly
accept patches =) Not every developer has access to all of the possible
machines that his userbase may use, so we rely on others for testing and
catching bugs in the code on platforms we don't run natively.
From what I understand so far, you want some sort of bookmarklet
plugin in your browser to convert? Your browser would have to understand the
mime type of the Word document and either launch Word, or launch the
conversion tool of choice to convert it to Plucker format. Or am I missing
your proposed design?
I've got a _very_ alpha Mozilla plugin here I am writing that allows
you to right-click on a page in the browser, and send that to JPluck or
plucker-build. If I get some time this week, I may toss it out there for
people to bang on.
> Agreed, but that's not a reason to _not_ include it, but rather a reason
> to support it in each distiller.
Right, just making sure that everyone understands the need to remain
portable, and POSIX compliant. If it works on Windows Python distiller, does
that mean the same constructs will work on the Linux perl distiller or a
Java distiller or an Objective-C distiller? In most cases, it won't, but I'm
pedantic like that =)
d.
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