[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by phillipgessert

That’s what I meant by isolate them first. That’s exactly what I do. I think this is a situation where we talked about it so long that the context of my original comment got lost.

Your advice was perfectly fine. Pandoc is an okay tool.

I sometimes do a similar Calibre EPUB->EPUB conversion to condense cruft too, making the code slightly more human-workable.

Side Note: You may also be interested in a talk that's being given on July 26th, 2020 by the creator of pandoc:

"Pandoc for TEXnicians" (John MacFarlane)

https://www.tug.org/tug2020/program.html

(TUG is the annual LaTeX conference. This year's is going to be fully free + online, and they'll also post the videos at a later date.)

Summary is in the spoiler:

Spoiler:

Sun, 26 Jul – 17:15 PM | John MacFarlane — UC Berkeley, Keynote address: Pandoc for TEXnicians

I will give an overview of the document conversion program pandoc, with an emphasis on how it might be useful to people who are already comfortable using LATEX to prepare documents. In the first part, I’ll discuss the use of pandoc to convert between LATEX and other common formats, including Microsoft Word docx and HTML. In the second part, I’ll give some reasons why even a seasoned TEXnician might want to consider writing documents in pandoc’s extended Markdown instead of LATEX, and I’ll teach some tricks that can be used to recover the tremendous power and flexibility of LATEX in this simpler idiom.

Originally Posted by Hitch

AGGHGHGHGHGHGHGGG!!! SHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Stop the madness before he curmudges again!

It was already settled last month. The thread to end all threads!

<i>, <em> or <span> for italics?

Especially see Post #67+ for all the juicy details.

Now we'll never see it brought up again. Settled. Done. Finito.