Create markdown from nested latex files by following input and include commands using a simple python script

README.md

About

The script is to supplement the conversion in pandoc from latex to markdown by following simple commands like include and input since this is common in larger documents which are the ones that benefit most from pandoc's automatic conversion.

Example Command

To convert cv-stylish.tex to cv.md without intermediate files

python latexExpander.py cv-stylish.tex | pandoc --from=latex -o cv.md

latexExpander.py

import sys
def expandCommand(inText,cmdName,appendSuffix):
    """
    takes a text and returns (recurvsively) all of the latex code involved)
    """
    spLines = inText.split('\\'+cmdName+'{')
    if(len(spLines)>1):
        restArgs = map(lambda s: s.partition('}'),spLines[1:])
        completeFile = [expandLatex(fName+appendSuffix)+' '+fLines for (fName,junk,fLines) in restArgs]
        return ' '.join([spLines[0]]+completeFile)
    else:
        return inText

def expandLatex(inFileName,debug=False):
    """
    takes a file and returns (recurvsively) all of the latex code involved)
    """
    if (debug): print 'Parsing latex file:'+inFileName
    fullFile = open(inFileName,'r').readlines()
    allText=''.join(fullFile)
    allText=expandCommand(allText,'input','.tex')
    allText=expandCommand(allText,'include','')
    return allText

def expandLatexFile(inFile,outFile):
    exText = expandLatex(inFile,True)
    out=open(outFile,'w')
    out.write(exText)
    out.flush()
    out.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    latexFile=sys.argv[1]
    if(len(sys.argv)>2):
        outFile=sys.argv[2]
        expandLatexFile(latexFile,outFile)
    else:
        print expandLatex(latexFile)