[Vim-latex-devel] Re: tex-refs project and xml to vim-help conversion

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Michael Wiedmann wrote:

> > <table>
> > <tr><td colspan=2>=====================================================================</td></tr>
> > <tr><td>Section name</td><td align=right>*section-tag*</td></tr>
> > </table>
>
> This might need some complicate customization, but I can ask for some
> help in the DocBook-Apps ML. Could you please test before, whether
> this output would produce the wanted TXT output if dumped with lynx/w3m?

Lynx behaves somewhat strangely... Doing lynx -dump test.html > test.txt
produces something like:

   =====================================================================
   Section name *section-tag*

But if I do lynx test.html and from within lynx do
print -> save to local file -> test.txt
then I correctly get:

   =====================================================================
   Section name                                            *section-tag*

I still do not quite see why it produces extra leading spaces, but that
is easy to take care of...

> <para> foo foo foo foo <emphasis>bar bar</emphasis> foo foo foo</para>
>
> If you completely ignore the contents of the <emphasis> tag, then you'll
> loose the information inside the tag. Just copy the text content of
> any unknown tag to the output file and don't do any sepcial treatment
> for this tag.

Okay... Its trivial enough to just process all text within unkwown
tags in python...

It looks like customizing docbook xsl stylesheets is a complicated
affair from what you said about customizing the output of the section
tag. So another question: how hard is it to add tags of our own... For
example, in a vim help file, we typically describe vim options in a
consistent manner which lends itself nicely to markup.
(For example try :help 'statusline'). We could do the same thing with a
series of <table>'s but then we'll have to take care of the indexing
and stuff ourselves which kind of defeats the purpose of docbook.

Srinath