jurabr / otl2a

A naive converter from The Vim Outliner (TVO) to other formats (LaTeX, HTML)

The otl2a is a very naive TVO (The Vim Outliner) to HTML/LaTeX format converter.

Installation

It is written in the plain old ANSI C89 language.

1. do: CC -o otl2a otl2a.c
2. copy otl2a any directory listed in the PATH variable (say /usr/local/bin) and otl2a.1 to one of MANPATH directories (e.g. /usr/local/man/man1/ or so)

Output formats

We are currently very limited. You may get:

1. HTML (very simple HTML - no styles, no nothing)
2. LaTeX (article)
3. LaTeX (book)
4. LaTeX (slides - but my modification with predefined "\sltit" and "\slsec" commands instead of \section, \subsection etc)
5. EMACS outliner format (untested as I am not an EMACS user)
6. LaTeX Beamer format (presentations)

Usage

otl2a [options] output

See manual page for options.

The most inportant options:

-t=format Output format. format can be on of: html, latex, lslides, lbeamer, lbook emacs. The long-style options (--html or --latex or --latex-slides, --latex-beamer, --latex-book or --emacs instead of -t=format) also may work.

-e or --expand-links Links (e.g. [link], [[anchor]] [file.ext]) will be expanded (replaced with format-depedent informa- tion). If links.ext is an image (extension is identical to one of png, jpg, gif, jpeg, tif, tiff, eps, svg), the proper image tag will be used ( for the HTML).

-l or --expand-hlinks The http://..., https://... and ftp://... will be expanded/replaced with proper hyperlink tags.

-u or --itemize-only or --no-enumerate All itemized things (lines that starts with "*" or "-") will be exported as non-numbered items. The default behaviour is to export "-"s as numbered items (

in HTML).