Script: Convert RTF to MultiMarkdown

[pete31]

Glad to hear it works for you.

@ngan

Why the script needs “DisplaySuffix” and uses it as a condition for whether or not to change “theName” by using basename()? Perhaps it’s more for your specific settings?

Edit:

The script doesn’t need to check “DisplaySuffix”.

Now using this handler to get the name without suffix.

@ngan

I wonder why the scripts needs regex and this block if there are “:” in the “plain text”? The reason that I am asking is the script still works as expected and can retain/convert all DT-Links to MD format when I comment out the block. EDITED: to avoid markdown to interpret any first line with “:” as meta data?

Yes to avoid interpretation as metadata. For other readers:

MultiMarkdown treats a first line containing a : as metadata and hides it in rendered view (see MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide). In context of converting from RTF we don’t want a first line that contains a : to be hidden, escaping prevents this. This capture makes it clear

• If the first line in the resulting markdown record contains a : and contains formatting there’s no problem.
• If the first line isn’t formatted it will be treated as metadata if we don’t escape :.
• Easiest way to handle this is to always escape if there’s a colon.

@ngan

Pandoc at works and it is powerful.

It is, there are so many options one can use, I didn’t get to read the whole User’s Guide yet. There might be formatting in your RTFs that isn’t covered from the script so it’s a good idea to read the guide and add everything that you might need.

@ngan

It works smoothly for RTF file that has no image

I’ve found an option that might make it possible to convert RTFDs too:

--extract-media=DIR
       Extract  images  and other media contained in or linked from the
       source document to the path DIR, creating it if  necessary,  and
       adjust  the  images  references in the document so they point to
       the extracted files.  If the source format is a binary container
       (docx,  epub, or odt), the media is extracted from the container
       and the original filenames are used.   Otherwise  the  media  is
       read  from  the file system or downloaded, and new filenames are
       constructed based on SHA1 hashes of the contents.

I’ll try that now