Dear tex4ht list members, I would like to produce an ODT document from my XeLaTeX document (using MacTeX 2016).
The necessary code to include Unicode characters (including in Greek and
Arabic script) was kindly provided by CV Radhakrishnan and Michal Hoftich
back in February 2013. But I am running into a new difficulty: converting a
document that defines LaTeX macros that have Unicode characters in them.
(The reason I want this is to enable me to use macros within a
Right-to-Left script, Arabic. Mixing up RTL and LTR scripts in a text
editor, especially when punctuation -- or braces {} -- is involved, tends
to make the source file unreadable.)
I am attaching a MWE in two files:
1. `main.tex`: standalone file that includes macro definition
2. `utf2ent.pl`: the Perl script devised by CVR to keep Unicode in the new
document
The script I run to compile this is:
# CVR's script to preserve Unicode characters
perl utf2ent.pl main.tex > main-ent.tex
# tex4ht
mk4ht oolatex main-ent "xhtml, charset=utf-8" -utf8
If I get rid of the macro, it works perfectly. But with the macro it
produces an ODT file that won't open.
Best wishes,
Alex
main.tex
Description: TeX document
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
for my $file ( @ARGV ){
open my $fh, '<:utf8', $file or die "cannot open file $file: $!";
while( <$fh> ){
s/([\x7f-\x{ffffff}])/'\\entity{'.ord($1).'}'/ge;
print;
}
}
