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pkubowicz / opendetex

Improved version of Detex - tool for extracting plain text from TeX and LaTeX sources
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Does detex allow me to ignore newline that exist in the middle of the line? #44

Closed avatar-lavventura closed 5 years ago

avatar-lavventura commented 6 years ago

For example I am writing a latex document.

detex convert the line as:

scientists
for decades ...

Original should be: scientists for decades ...

Since there is a new line on the original .tex document its output like that (having a newline).

[Q] Is there any way to ignore that newline that exists in the middle of a sentences?

pkubowicz commented 6 years ago

No, no such functionality exists. detex was intended primarily to allow spell-checking TeX sources, not to provide a nicely formatted plain text output.

avatar-lavventura commented 6 years ago

I guess my option is to replace \n with empty space ' '. tr '\n' ' ' < outputFile.txt @pkubowicz

pauloney commented 5 years ago

@avatar-lavventura, I am not really sure what you are trying to accomplish here. If you tell us more we would be able to recommend something more appropriate.

Converting a newline to a space will certainly "damage" most output of DeTeX because it will convert all of it in a very long-line. DeTeX has no knowledge of where a Chapter/Section starts so those will become just something lost in the middle of a line.

If you are looking for something that will produce a nice ASCII format for you text look into processing, and then using pdftotext to obtain a nice ASCII output.