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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 James D. Simmons
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+
+import getopt
+import sys
+
+# This is a script to take the a file in RTF format and convert it to a text file readable by Read Etexts.
+
+def main(file_path):
+
+    rtf_file = open(file_path,"r")
+    out = open("book.txt", 'w')
+    brace_count = 0
+
+    while rtf_file:
+        line = rtf_file.readline()
+        if not line:
+            break
+        line = line.replace('\\pard', '\n')
+        line = line.replace('\\par', '\n')
+        line = line.replace(' \\i0', '*')
+        line = line.replace('\\i ', '*')
+        line = line.replace('\\emdash', '--')
+        line = line.replace('\\line', '\n')
+        brace_count = brace_count + count_braces(line)
+        line = strip_tags(line)
+        if brace_count == 1 and line.find('{') < 0 and line.find('}') < 0:
+            out.write(line.lstrip())
+    rtf_file.close()
+    out.close()
+    print "All done!"
+    
+def strip_tags(string):
+    index = 0
+    copy = True
+    output = ''
+    while index < len(string):
+        if string[index] == '\\':
+            copy = False
+        if string[index] == ' ':
+            copy = True
+        if copy == True:
+            output = output + string[index]
+        index = index + 1
+    return output
+    
+def count_braces(string):
+    index = 0
+    count = 0
+    while index < len(string):
+        if string[index] == '{':
+            count = count + 1
+        if string[index] == '}':
+            count = count - 1
+        index = index + 1
+    return count
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "")
+        main(args[0])
+    except getopt.error, msg:
+        print msg
+        print "This program has no options"
+        sys.exit(2)