antiword
My local unix guru just showed me antiword. It is a really cool (and small and simple) utility to convert m$word files into nicely formatted ascii text. (also postscript). It works great for hebrew too. (I pipe the output through 'rev'. the english is reversed as well, but at least I can read all those hebrew attachements that I used to ignore until now, and also for english it is so much faster and better that starting a slow and annoying gui session with openoffice or koffice) I downloaded && installed it and it is really cool. The website is http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ What I did was to pipe the output through |rev|more or |rev|less. for less you should make sure that the LESSCHARSET variable is ok. (I used latin1). Also I wrote a script to start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke it from my mail client (mutt). I was impressed by this useful little utility and I hope this posting will be useful for somebody. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
I would like to thank both you and your unix guru. I downloaded and compiled antiword on a Solaris box without any problem. It indeed seems cool. I feel obliged to tell here that Nadav's bidiv is much better than rev for viewing mixed English/Logical-Hebrew text files. Check ftp://ftp.ivrix.org.il/pub/ivrix/src/cmdline/bidiv-1.2.tgz . Thanks (really), Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Christoph Bugel wrote: > My local unix guru just showed me antiword. > It is a really cool (and small and simple) utility to convert m$word files into > nicely formatted ascii text. (also postscript). It works great for hebrew too. But not the postscript, right? > (I pipe the output through 'rev'. the english is reversed as well, but at least > I can read all those hebrew attachements that I used to ignore until now, and > also for english it is so much faster and better that starting a slow and > annoying gui session with openoffice or koffice) > I downloaded && installed it and it is really cool. > > The website is http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ > What I did was to pipe the output through |rev|more or |rev|less. for less you > should make sure that the LESSCHARSET variable is ok. (I used latin1). if your language settings are correct, then your charset is probably iso-8859-8 by default , and then you don't have to set LESSCHARSET explicitly. See locale(7) and less(1) >Also I > wrote a scriptto start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke > it from my mail client (mutt). In my .Xdefaults I had: Xterm*Font:heb8x13 The downside for such a setting is that the bold font is not supplied. > I was impressed by this useful little utility and I hope this posting will be > useful for somebody. My current 'wordv' script does: antiword -m 8859-8.txt "$1" | bidiv BTW: is there a simple way to make such a script work for standard-input? antiword does not accept input from the standard input. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
On Mon 2001-04-16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [snip] > > wrote a scriptto start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke > > it from my mail client (mutt). > > In my .Xdefaults I had: > > Xterm*Font:heb8x13 > > The downside for such a setting is that the bold font is not supplied. And also that the hebrew font is too small :-( I need a hebrew font only rarely when I need to read something, so I prefer to stay with a normal font. I wonder why the hebrew font is still not available in larger sizes and bold. (or is it?) [snip] > My current 'wordv' script does: > > antiword -m 8859-8.txt "$1" | bidiv > > > BTW: is there a simple way to make such a script work for standard-input? > antiword does not accept input from the standard input. I think antiword will eventually have this feature, since it is only at version 0.3.*. (Maybe I should help them..), but currently antiword expects a filename, so no matter how clever the shell script, there still has to be an actual file on the disk, so using tempfiles is unavoidable. My script is realy ugly, I think, but it works for me :). this is what I do: I use 'cat' to accept stdin and write it into a tmp file, which is deleted later (officially I should use 'trap' to delete the tmp files) # #!/bin/sh # note, LESSCHARSET should be set correctly. (otherwise only 'more' works) # yes, or I should fix my locale.. script=/tmp/antiword-script$$ data=/tmp/antiword-data$$ cat > $data echo /home/chris/bin/antiword -m 8859-8.txt $data '|' rev '|' less > $script chmod +x $script xterm -fn heb8x13 -e $script rm -f $data $script # And thanks (also to Dan) for the bidiv tip. I will try it. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
yep ots really nice antiword -m /usr/local/share/antiword/8859-8.txt ~/tmp/file.doc | fribidi -charset 8859-8 | hpstext does the work nicly (thanks to our anonymous local hebrew guru;) Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Christoph Bugel wrote: | My local unix guru just showed me antiword. | It is a really cool (and small and simple) utility to convert m$word files into | nicely formatted ascii text. (also postscript). It works great for hebrew too. | (I pipe the output through 'rev'. the english isreversed as well, but at least | I can read all those hebrew attachements that I used to ignore until now, and | also for english it is so much faster and better that starting a slow and | annoying gui session with openoffice or koffice) | I downloaded && installed it and it is really cool. | | The website is http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ | What I did was to pipe the output through |rev|more or |rev|less. for less you | should make sure that the LESSCHARSET variable is ok. (I used latin1). Also I | wrote a script to start an xterm with -fn heb8x13, so that I can easily invoke | it from my mail client (mutt). | I was impressed by this useful little utility and I hope this posting will be | useful for somebody. | | | | = | To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with | the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command | echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
Hi, Where can I find hpstext? Thanks. -- Rozhavsky Michael On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Ely Levy wrote: > yep ots really nice > antiword -m /usr/local/share/antiword/8859-8.txt ~/tmp/file.doc | fribidi > -charset 8859-8 | hpstext > does the work nicly > (thanks to our anonymous local hebrew guru;) > > > Ely Levy > System group > Hebrew University > Jerusalem Israel > [snip] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: antiword
Hi, where can I find hpstext? Thank you. On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:39:53PM +0300, Ely Levy wrote: > yep ots really nice > antiword -m /usr/local/share/antiword/8859-8.txt ~/tmp/file.doc | fribidi > -charset 8859-8 | hpstext > does the work nicly > (thanks to our anonymous local hebrew guru;) > > > Ely Levy > System group > Hebrew University > Jerusalem Israel > > [snip] -- Regards, Michael Rozhavsky Optical Access Senior Software Engineer Tel:+972-4-9936248 Fax:+972-4-9890564 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:www.opticalaccess.com = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Hebrew fix for antiword
I sent this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a while back & it bounced. Dear
IGLU, whoever you are, PLEASE have an Email address.
Uli
Hi,
This is a fix to chartrans.c in antiword to make hebrew chars display
correctly:
241a242,247
> #define HEBREW
> #ifdef HEBREW
> if (iChar > 1487 && iChar < 1515 ) { /* Hebrew */
> return iChar-1488+224;
> }
> #endif /* HEBREW */
a neat script is :
$ cat ~sam/bin/hantiword
#!/bin/csh -f
antiword $1 | fribidi -charset 8859-8
Use "more" to view, since "less" considers hebrew non-displayable. Also,
use xterm -fn heb6x13 to display.
I know this is primitive and that const-const can be optimised. It
works. It's late. This is my contribution to fighting Microsoft for the
night. "Veletif'eret Medinat Yisrael".
Sam
--
Sam (Uli) Freed
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Re: A Hebrew fix for antiword
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Sam (Uli) Freed wrote: > Use "more" to view, since "less" considers hebrew non-displayable. use less -r to display 8bit chars. -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
