Extract note feature. Ready to compile several note together.

papers/plugs/texnote/default_body.tex

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 \usepackage{INFO} %The style location is automatically filled
 \begin{document}
 %}
-
-
 %HEADER{
 %This part is the header, you can modify it as you wish. It will be removed when compiling higher level notes 
 %TITLE, AUTHOR, YEAR, ABSTRACT will be automatyically replaced with respect to the associated bibfile thanks to the \autofill{*FIELD*}{} marker.

papers/plugs/texnote/latex_tools.py

@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 import os
 import subprocess
 
+from .autofill_tools import replace_pattern
+
+DO_NOT_MODIFY_PATTERN = '%DO_NOT_MODIFY{INFO}'
+HEADER_PATTERN = '%HEADER{INFO}'
+
+
+def extract_note(text):
+    text = replace_pattern(text, DO_NOT_MODIFY_PATTERN, 'INFO')
+    text = text.replace(DO_NOT_MODIFY_PATTERN, '')
+    text = replace_pattern(text, HEADER_PATTERN, 'INFO')
+    text = text.replace(HEADER_PATTERN, '')
+    return remove_empty_lines(text)
+
+
+def remove_empty_lines(text):
+    cleaned_text = ''
+    for line in text.split('\n'):
+        if line.strip():
+                cleaned_text += line + '\n'
+    return cleaned_text[:-1]
+
 
 def full_compile(full_path_to_file, verbose=False):
     FNULL = None
@@ -22,10 +43,10 @@ def run_command(command, full_path_to_file, stdout=None, nb_time=1):
         subprocess.call(cmd, stdout=stdout)
     os.chdir(origWD) # get back to our original working directory
 
+
 def run_pdflatex(full_path_to_file, stdout=None, nb_time=1):
     run_command('pdflatex', full_path_to_file, stdout, nb_time)
 
+
 def run_bibtex(full_path_to_file, stdout=None, nb_time=1):
     run_command('bibtex', full_path_to_file, stdout, nb_time)
-
-

papers/plugs/texnote/texnote.py

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ from ...plugins import PapersPlugin
 from ...events import RemoveEvent, RenameEvent, AddEvent
 from ...commands.helpers import add_references_argument, parse_reference
 
+from . import latex_tools
 from .autofill_tools import autofill, replace_pattern
-from .latex_tools import full_compile
 
 
 SECTION = 'texnote'
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ class TexnotePlugin(PapersPlugin):
                         ('generate_bib', self.generate_bib),
                         ('clean', self.clean),
                         ('generate_pdf', self.generate_pdf),
+                        ('extract_note', self.extract_note),
                         ])
 
     def _ensure_init(self):
@@ -108,6 +109,10 @@ class TexnotePlugin(PapersPlugin):
                 default=True, help="don't clean document afterwards")
         p.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', action='store_true', dest='verbose',
                  default=False, help="display stdout")
+        # extract_note
+        p = sub.add_parser('extract_note',
+                help='extract core note from its reference')
+        add_references_argument(p, single=True)
         return parser
 
     def command(self, args):
@@ -221,7 +226,7 @@ class TexnotePlugin(PapersPlugin):
         rp = repo.Repository(config())
         citekey = parse_reference(rp, reference)
         path = self.get_texfile(citekey, autofill=True)
-        full_compile(path, verbose)
+        latex_tools.full_compile(path, verbose)
         if clean:
             self.clean(force=True)
         if open_pdf:
@@ -231,6 +236,14 @@ class TexnotePlugin(PapersPlugin):
             cmd.append(os.path.splitext(path)[0] + '.pdf')
             subprocess.Popen(cmd)
 
+    def extract_note(self, reference):
+        rp = repo.Repository(config())
+        citekey = parse_reference(rp, reference)
+        path = self.get_texfile(citekey, autofill=True)
+        with open(path) as f:
+            text = f.read()
+        print latex_tools.extract_note(text)
+
 
 @AddEvent.listen()
 def create(addevent):