>This does a good job on the majority of the non-Core stories; the
>parallel-cast-and-song credits on some of the stories don't fare as
>well.
>
>(The Core stories have idiosyncratic sections that would require a
>good deal of hand-editing to make right, but most of the body text
>comes out okay.)

I converted a bunch of SoS stories to latex a few years back; my code to do so kept getting more and more complex (I'm not sure I ever found a good solution for the cast and song credits).

The problem, of course, is that the stories were written for people to read, not for programs to process. Clearly the solution is strong AI (as long as we can keep them focused on the job, and not distracted by reading the stories instead of processing them).

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