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Programming and creativityI need a category for a blog-entry. It is about programming, but as I am beginning to fall foul of technology, have to append something useful to the title.
Posted 02-13-2021 at 05:28 AM byMichael Uplawski Updated 01-05-2024 at 03:20 AM byMichael Uplawski(Updates and a comprehensive Howto in English (manuscript))
My hand-writing suffers from not doing any. For some years already I try to compensate by forcing me to use a fountain pen, whenever possible. I even try to find new occasions to use it. The fountain pen obliges me to concentrate and to obey. My texts are more readable, since, but the process is too slow and cumbersome....
Posted 05-29-2019 at 06:30 AM byMichael Uplawski Updated 09-19-2020 at 01:46 AM byMichael Uplawski(SoftMaker Office 2021 has improved xml standard-compliance)
Current Word-processors read and write different XML-based file-formats. The standards which are more or less implemented by these programs, are OOXML and/or OpenDocument. I write “more or less”, because for diverse reasons, Office-suites differ in the way that they compose documents of one certain type. The variations can result in a completely valid document or one that diverts from the standard and the existing schema-definitions (xsd). There is always the risk that
Edit: I just mention that the procedure used in the below script is generally applicable in any situation where you want to get a piece of “Web” while avoiding a downright Web-Browser and wherever you can replace it by curl or wget.
No this is not spectacular.
When I try to listen to a precise broadcast on France Culture (www.franceculture.fr), because I have missed it in the morning, I am confronted with a page that wants to open more than 25 connections to sites external...
This time, it serves me to facilitate writing posts and blog entries, here on LinuxQuestions.org, by transforming HTML to the markdown-syntax supported by LQ.
Taken the html-version of a man-page, like for HTML2Index, which is generated automatically alongside the other file-formats (PDF and man), I can call an xsltprocessor, like xsltproc with the new stylesheet and get a text-version of the HTML-page, ready to be copied&pasted...
In short, I have written an XSL-stylesheet to transform the XML-code from an OOXML document (M$ Word® format docx or SoftMaker®'s tmdx) into a reStructuredText file.
The current edition produces enough formatting for a man-page, although some enhancements should allow the inclusion of tables.
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