Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Nalen
Bill J. wrote: >The right way to approach it might be to add a new couple of lines >to PyPlucker/Parser.py, and add a new file containing the WordParser >class.  Or, you could call a converter to convert it to text and/or HTML, >and then call the PlainTextParser or the StructuredHTMLParser to grok

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Janssen
Sure, let's put this in the Python distiller, so that it will work with the Java version of that distiller, too. I'm not crazy about doing it with shell scripts. The right way to approach it might be to add a new couple of lines to PyPlucker/Parser.py, and add a new file containing the WordParser

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
> From what I understand so far, you want some sort of bookmarklet >plugin in your browser to convert? Your browser would have to understand the >mime type of the Word document and either launch Word, or launch the >conversion tool of choice to convert it to Plucker format. Or am I missing >your pr

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Sure, if all you want is to convert one document. My company has a home > page with internal news, etc. with links to relevant Word documents. It > would be nice to have the home page with news and the Word documents > linked to in one pdb. Then you can turn it into a script which tak

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
> Not at all, you can make a script that just takes a path to a Word >doc as an argument and converts. Sure, if all you want is to convert one document. My company has a home page with internal news, etc. with links to relevant Word documents. It would be nice to have the home page with news and

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Chris Hawks
---On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:49:38 -0500, Bill Nalen said > Chris wrote: >>My company does too. I use a section in .pluckerrc and a couple of >>scripts (run by before_command and after_command) to do the translation >>with wv and the cleanup. > >>Then all I have to do is 'plucker-build -s wor

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Nalen
Chris wrote: >    My company does too. I use a section in .pluckerrc and a couple of >scripts (run by before_command and after_command) to do the translation >with wv and the cleanup. >    Then all I have to do is 'plucker-build -s workdocs' and sync the >resulting .pdb to my palm. Would you min

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> The limitation with this is that the user has to plan for this and setup > the scripts for each pdb that may have a word doc. Not at all, you can make a script that just takes a path to a Word doc as an argument and converts. > Also, last I knew, the perl scripts didn't work under wind

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Maddock
>My company does too. I use a section in .pluckerrc and a couple of >scripts (run by before_command and after_command) to do the translation >with wv and the cleanup. *snip* >Maybe we should just provide the scripting. The limitation with this is that the user has to plan for this and setu

Re: Plucker Desktop Feature Request

2003-02-04 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 3 Feb 2003 at 17:37, Brent Haag wrote: > My proposal is this: > --Have ability to leave proxy password blank and ask for it every time > it is needed (or every session), This can be done quite easily. Perhaps a [ ] Prompt for username/password checkbox for the proxy pages, as the UI? > and/o

Re: Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Chris Hawks
---On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:03:42 -0500, Bill Nalen said > The internal information that our company plucks contains many ms word > documents which are very valuable to have on the Palm. However the > current Python parser doesn't handle them. I saw David's message back in > October that involv

Parsing MS Word documents

2003-02-04 Thread Bill Nalen
The internal information that our company plucks contains many ms word documents which are very valuable to have on the Palm.  However the current Python parser doesn't handle them.  I saw David's message back in October that involved wv and Perl to do the conversion.  I'm wondering if it will be