Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

       thanks; some more good tips.




On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi :)
> Styles and Templates are a really fast way of imposing new formatting
> after you have converted it all into plain text.  It might sound like
> something that is going to take ages but you would be surprised at how fast
> you can get through it the way people are recommending.  It surprised me!
>
> With Word i had often spent hours trying to un-mess documents from other
> people but Writer's use of styles makes it fast and simple.
>
> Another advantage with Writer's use of styles is that you can change the
> font throughout a document really quickly.  Just right-click on the "text
> body" style and change the font there.  Same with the "default" style and
> then as you go through other styles you have used you may find some have
> already changed automatically.
>
> I sometimes select a large area of text and force it to change style
> between a few different styles that i don't want the text to appear in and
> then settle it all as "text-body".  That usually clears a lot of the
> messes.  Then just go through and select headings and sub-headings and set
> their style as "heading1" or "heading 2" or whatever is the appropriate
> level.
>
> See Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide as it probably has even faster
> ways of getting through the document
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> > From: lordmax tdf <lordmax-tdf@email.it>
> > To:
> > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
> libreoffice
> > Hi all
> >
> > Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk.
> > I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never
> end
> > I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too
> > many time.
> > I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful.
> > I can't use regex for automatize the work.
> > It's really a sin.
> >
> > So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and
> > then convert it.
> > I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible
> evidently.
> > Thanks to all
> >
> > Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto:
> > >         When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ...
> > >               merely 'select all' -> copy -> paste to notepad -> all the
> > > text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line
> ;-)
> > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted
> file
> > > > that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text
> file
> > > > and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I
> > > > wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your
> content,
> > > > such as footnotes.
> > > >
> > > > Good luck.
> > > > Virgil
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: lordmax tdf
> > > > Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM
> > > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in
> libreoffice
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version
> > > > I'm working on many ebook in epub format.
> > > > Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's
> wonderful
> > > > My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a
> mess
> > > > with styles, fonts, etc
> > > > Really a chaos.
> > > >
> > > > I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found
> > > > nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet
> > > >
> > > > My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title.
> > > > In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or
> > > > more blank lines all in header1 style
> > > >
> > > > I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply
> > > > change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles
> > > >
> > > > I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice
> > > > forum but I haven't find any solutions.
> > > >
> > > > Can you help me?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks

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