Gryphon formatting import

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In Gryphon, we often use basic markdown formatting on question text. However, these updates are not typically visible in toplines or crosstab documents created by crunchtabs. Need to explore a method for "copying over" this injected formatting.

In a perfect world - that there was some formatting in the question that the respondent saw would also be replicated in the tabs

• text wrapped in ** should be converted to \textbf{text}
• text wrapped in <u></u> should be \underline{} (need to use character entity too, such as < >)
• <br> or <br /> should be converted to a newline (a carriage return)

The XML export from Gryphon appears to provide all of the information that we need to copy over formatting elements like underline, bold and new lines.

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Formatting input would require QDF parsing which would be a significant (although worthwhile) effort. It would also require a conversion between QDF/HTML formatting and LaTex. These elements are currently outside the scope of crunchtabs.

However, we have provided a new function, called relabel that allows the user to inject arbitrary text into the description or notes. This could be used, for example, to write LaTex that matches what is shown during our web-based survey and what is presented in crunchtabs.