Re: [O] latex to org converter

[Mirko Vukovic]

Charles Philip Chan <cpchan <at> bell.net> writes:

> 
> Marvin Doyley <marvinpas <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Does anybody has a script that convert latex files to org mode ?
> >
> > I wrote one in Matlab, but it is a little clunky - I wrote it in matlab
> > because I am still learning lisp
> 
> Not exactly a script, but I highly recommend Pandoc[1]. There is also
> pandoc-mode[2], which is an Emacs frontend to Pandoc.
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ 
> 
> [2] http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~jkremer/pandoc-mode.html 
> 


I always thought that TeX/LaTeX would be the perfect engine for that.  It
already understands the markup.  ``Only'' the output format would need to be
written.

Maybe with LuaTeX such a task can be made easier.   

Disclamer: I've never done any deep TeX/LaTeX/Lua coding.

Mirko