MartinoMensio / doc2latex_process_chapters

A stupid tool to process the outputs of docx2latex.com to create clean latex content divided into chapters

Doc2latex utility tool

This tool, given a Google Doc exported to latex using https://www.docx2latex.com/, cleans up the content and produces the chapter files (and abstract) that can be loaded in another latex template.

To make this work, specific rules have to be used while writing the Google Docs document:

• ensure to use Google Docs hierarchical headings
• for the abstract write it between the title ( preceeded by the Abstract heading): its sections won't be displayed in the TOC.
• footnotes to citations must be in the form Key:<BIBITEM_KEY> <ANY_TEXT CAN FOLLOW> where <BIBITEM_KEY> is the identifier of the bibitem.
• for images substitution, add a [FIG:<figure_identifier> CAPTION:<caption to insert for the figure>] and use refs like [REF FIG:<figure_identifier>] where <figure_identifier> is the name of the pdf file to be placed in the folder figures.
• for tables to be listed in TOC, use [TABLE:<table_identifier> CAPTION:<Any text there>], that can be referenced with [REF TABLE:<table_identifier>]
• to have cross references use [REF <LABEL>] where <LABEL> has been used inside a declaration [LABEL:<LABEL>]

Procedure:

• use Doc2Latex https://www.docx2latex.com/docx2latex_free
• extract the .zip file in the subdirectory source
• run the python script
• chech the output results in the folder out

The results are:

• media folder with all the pictures from the Google Doc. You may want to substitute them with vectorial pdfs
• partials folder that will contain the abstract and the chapters

Note

This code is potentially full of bugs