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#1 2009-07-07 12:26:31
- woof
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[textile] Word .doc to textile
Does anyone know of a relatively simple, short and cruft-free way to export or process text formatted in MS Word to textile?
I have hundreds of docs with thousands of italic phrases. I’m facing the chilling prospect of having to manually reinstate basic ( bold, italic and underline) formatting — any way to automate the process would be a cause for much merry leaping.
Anyone had this problem and found a solution? Thanks Woof.
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
woof wrote:
Does anyone know of a relatively simple, short and cruft-free way to export or process text formatted in MS Word to textile?
Never tried it but does the Word 2 Media Wiki tool help at all? I know they’re not the same language (though MW does do Textile with an extension I think) but since that tool is a simple VB macro, perhaps it could be hacked to do so? The hard part is searching the Word-formatted document for the right codes, which this tool does for you; what it does with them afterwards is probably fairly easy to change in the macro. He says…
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#3 2009-07-07 12:43:07
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
Cheers Bloke – that looks promising… here goes a try…
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#4 2009-07-07 13:08:15
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
By jove Bloke, you did it! The aforementioned merry leaping has been executed in your honour sir.
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woof wrote:
By jove Bloke, you did it! The aforementioned merry leaping has been executed in your honour sir.
:-) No probs, glad it helped. If you modded the macro, care to share the changes? I’m sure I could use it for an upcoming site…
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
Just to add to this thread for future reference.
There is also an OpenOffice to DokuWiki macro, which I’ve used quite often to insert content into my own wikis.
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#7 2010-06-02 07:38:57
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
Bloke wrote:
:-) No probs, glad it helped. If you modded the macro, care to share the changes? I’m sure I could use it for an upcoming site…
This is the one I use, but mind that it doesn’t convert everything, just the functions I need: http://pastebin.com/Wtvd6xCN
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#8 2011-07-19 04:41:20
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Re: [textile] Word .doc to textile
I took the examples provided and made something that does a bit more than the version M_i posted; in fact I think it handles everything the original MediaWiki version does. Let me know if it needs work (though note that I’m no expert on Word macros; I just played with it until it did what I wanted).
Thanks for the original tip on this; I’ve got some fairly large Word documents that I want to post on Obsidian Portal.
Here it is: Word2Textile
If that link ever breaks, here’s the actual file.
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