lj2latex?

[robinturner]

Some time back, I had a groovy idea for writing a Perl script to convert LJ entires to LaTeX, so you could download your journal and get a beautifully typeset hard copy (Donald Knuth, Leslie Lamport and Larry Wall, I worship the ground you tread on!). Unfortunately my Perl skills are so minimal that it would take me an entire Summer vacation to do it, and during the Summer I'm normally in some Turkish holiday resort with no computer, or on my mother's computer with no Perl or LaTeX. So if any LJ Perl monks are reading this, here's a nice project for you to display your monkery: lj2latex!

Comments

[evan.livejournal.com]

It'd be better to have an LJ -> offline program and another offline -> TeX. I actually wrote the first part a while ago in Python but I dunno if it works anymore...

[solri.livejournal.com]

Any chance of a look at the code? Not that I know Python, but I could probably adapt it or run as is if it still works. Been messing around in bash unsuccessfully today - problem is I can't get wget to glob properly, probably because diary entries are accessed by a question post rather than a straight URL.

Incidentally, downloading a month's entries in XML seems to lose the paragraph breaks.

[evan.livejournal.com]

http://neugierig.org/software/livejournal/python/

It's pretty impenetrable though. I was writing it to test it and not for anyone else to ever be able to use it (or even myself to be able to understand it).

I'll put up my Ruby code after I play with it a bit. I saw someone announce that RSS 2.0 is "good" for journal backups, so maybe I can target that.

[solri.livejournal.com]

You're right - can't make head or tail of it ;-)